Bodega brings them in pairs, announcing a new album in addition to bringing “Tarkovski”, a single that will take us back to the nineties in one fell swoop.
It is always a pleasure when artists bring the news with a double surprise. Bodega knows this, and has not wasted a moment in making it clear to us: they have announced a new album, “Our Brand Could Be Yr Life” (Chrysalis, 24) which will be released next April 12; but, on the other hand, he has also given us another little “gem of time” in the form of a single that has taken us back to the nineties, “Tarkovski”.
The new song, which returns to the ear guitar and atmospheric sounds typical of early indie like REM, is accompanied by a video clip directed by Luca Balser halfway between the dreamlike clips of Oasis or Radiohead, with the aesthetic found footage and the revolutionary messages on tube televisions as a flag. Without a doubt, a nineties overdose. Furthermore, Ben Hozie, leader of the band, affirms that the title and artistic direction of the clip is not trivial and establishes the aesthetic influence of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his book “Sculpting in time” as essential to conceive the topic.
However, the arrival of what will be the band’s fifth album and the recent single are not the only news that Bodega has in store for us. We also know that said album will have fifteen tracks, in addition to being released in all formats. In addition, they have announced a tour that will take them through North America during the first half of 2024, but they will cross the pond and play in Madrid he May 24 in it Tomavistas Festival.
Either way, “Our Brand Could Be Yr Life” You can now pre-book through this link.