Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards.
Just ask punk cultural commentators BODEGA, whose new
album sees them carve a new future from fuzz-soaked,
consumerism-skewering shards of their past.
Our Brand Could Be YR Life is BODEGA's first album release
through Chrysalis Records. "It's something we've been
wanting to do for years," guitarist and vocalist Ben Hozie
explains of Our Brand Could Be Yr Life - a collection of
catchy indie-rock ruminations on the slow-creep of
corporate-think into youth culture, first written eight years
ago.
Our Brand Could Be YR Life's 15 tracks explore indie-rock
subgenres, self-critique and everything in between. "I
think it's our best- sounding record to date," says Hozie, "I
t's got dance-punk. There's some shoegaze on there.
There's slacker rock on there. There's psychedelic rock on
there. R.E.M, too. We wanted to be another band in a long
stream of missionaries, proselytising a certain type of rock
subculture,"
