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.”