Bodega unveil mini-album Shiny New Model with title-track


Bodega playing the first of two nights at YES in Manchester, Feb 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Bodega playing the first of two nights at YES in Manchester, Feb 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Bodega have announced a seven-track mini album to follow last year’s debut full length Endless Scroll.

Shiny New Model was recorded at Power Station in Connecticut and represents a series of firsts for the band – their first sessions with new member Tai Lee; their first in a professional studio and their first produced in house, by lead guitarist Madison Velding-VanDam.

“Pushing to be protean we bought a highlighter to different shades of our tastes: more traditionally melodious tune-smithing and bigger sounding sonics; we even used a kick drum for the first time (although it was still standing on its side),” Ben Hozie offers.

“As well as some studio improvising (unusual microphone placement, etc) – we also experimented with improvising in studio (the vinyl and CD will end with an extended ten-minute version of our song Truth is Not Punishment).”

“For the disc’s words I was thinking of two of my favourite motifs — history alive in the present and the conundrum of the contemporary consumer.”

“There is no way to repay the born-with debts of our plastic paradise — every purchase at the local bodega is at somebody else’s expense.”


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