“City is Taken” is the second single from Bodega’s upcoming album “Our Brand Could Be Yr Life” and its video was directed by the band’s Ben Hozie.
Bodega have returned with a new single entitled “City Is Taken,” set to be featured on their new album “Our Brand Could Be Yr Life”, out April 12th via Chrysalis Records. The charming track features a shuffling drum groove, dizzying post-punk guitar licks, and a tongue-in-cheek vocal performance from Nikki Belfiglio, who addresses New York City’s ever-changing landscape. “‘City Is Taken’ is a song about my experience of moving to NYC in 2010,” Belfiglio reflects. “I came to view myself and my artistic role models as a force of gentrification caught in the invisible web on profiteering that follows artists wherever they go. My visual presence became an unwitting symbol of destruction; the antithesis of everything I sought to create.”
The new track arrives with a DIY music video directed by Luca Balser, which co-main songwriter Ben Hozie introduces: “The video is a study in personal geography/archaeology. It features Nikki and I performing the track throughout a nocturnal NYC in front of defunct venues from the city’s storied musical past alongside Chase banks and Chipotles. The camera frames key DIY spots in BODEGA’s history such as Party Expo, Palisades (where the release party for the original “Our Brand Could Be Your Life” was in 2015), Silent Barn II, Sunnyvale (where the “Endless Scroll” release party was), Shea Stadium,
The forthcoming album is a partial rework of original material BODEGA’s Hozie and Belfiglio recorded in their apartment on a laptop under the name BODEGA BAY eight years ago. The new project is updated with a handful of newly written songs and a near decade of experience.
from the upcoming album ‘Our Brand Could Be YR Life’
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