Name: BODEGA + Gift (NYC) // The Cluny
Start: 2024-10-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Cluny

$BODEGA + Gift (NYC) \/\/ The Cluny$

f54 presents
Bodega
The Cluny
18.10.24
The first most people outside Brooklyn heard of New York rockers Bodega was 2018, when their debut Endless Scroll – described by the Guardian as “riot grrrl rant meets deadpan satire” – brought a new fizz and intelligence to the post-punk game. So much so that comparisons were quickly made with the likes of Courtney Barnett, Parquet Courts, and even LCD Soundsystem – an assertion that was backed up after the release of the follow-up, 2022’s Broken Equipment. While fiercely maintaining their unapologetically literate edge, the at-times ramshackle, stoner rock of the debut was tempered with a more melodic edge, or, in the NME’s words, “sugary post-punk goodness”.
Two years later, and they’re back with LP number three… except, in an odd way, it’s sort of LP number zero. Our Brand Could Be Your Life sees songwriters (and co-singers) Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio return to their pre-Endless Scroll output, previously only heard by what Hozie insists is “a handful of people in Bushwick, Brooklyn”, to rework the very first songs they wrote together into 15 sparkling, hook-heavy, supremely catchy new numbers.