Bodega by Pooneh Ghana
“James Winstanley shot tons of great camcorder footage during our current tour,” Bodega’s Ben Hozie says. “This has been by far our best tour yet.”
With the finish line of a UK and European tour that’s been running since March now in sight, Bodega are already looking back on some unforgettable memories with their new video for How Can I Help Ya?.
“How Can I Help Ya? was the last track I wrote for the album after all the other tracks had been recorded,” Hozie explains of the Broken Equipment track.
“I felt like the cinema of the record was missing a certain kind of scene: one where I could give myself and the broken world the benefit of the doubt. We have it start the b-side of the vinyl which is very different than the a-side.”
“The wonder wounded conscious-troubled protagonist of ‘Thrown’ now seeks to voice grace instead of analysis and condemnation. The band matches this new tone with playful, early Beatles-inspired power pop.”
“When we worked out the arrangement, Tai and Adam’s groove and Dan Ryan’s riffs came together almost as quickly as the lyrics. The same is often as true of song as of living: when you try hard you die hard.”
