Bodega by Pooneh Ghana
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
