Bodega unveil second album Broken Equipment

Bodega have also shared its first single Doers.

Bodega have set their second album Broken Equipment for release on March 11th next year.

The follow-up to 2018’s debut album Endless Scroll is ‘set in present day New York City’, and was co-produced by the band’s Ben Hozie.

“Sometime on tour near the end of 2019 I found myself reading and watching a plethora of self-help books and YouTube vids,” he says of the lead track.

“This started from a genuine desire for spiritual and physical improvement but I soon started noticing how advertisements everywhere were utilising the language of self-help. I was being programmed.

“‘You don’t have time to cook dinner tonight because you are too busy crushing it as a doer. You are creating next level content and don’t have time to hang out with friends or family this weekend so download this app and have ready-made food delivered to you for 29.99.”

“This ideology of constant productivity forces you to treat your own body, mind, time, and friends as products to mine. As a result the world becomes a smaller, duller place. All artists (all people) desire to be productive: ‘Function is the key.’ Yet…If a photo is taken of you in the woods: for all millennia you’ll always be stuck in the woods.”

UK and European tour dates, meanwhile, will start on the evening of the album’s release in Brighton.

Broken Equipment tracklist:

Thrown
Doers
Territorial Call of the Female
NYC (disambiguation)
Statuette on the Console
C.I.R.P.
Pillar on the Bridge of You
How Can I Help Ya?
No Blade of Grass
All Past Lovers
Seneca the Stoic
After Jane