Last month Brooklyn art punk group BODEGA announced their new LP Our Brand Could Be Yr Life, which will be out on April 12 via their new label home Chrysalis Records.
The album is a full ‘remake’ of an old band BODEGA BAY’s sole LP which was a self-released 33-track album from 2015. As mentioned, they approached this project like how a director might ‘remake’ one of their old films which meant writing several new songs and developing old ideas in new directions.
We already heard “Tarkovski”, and now the group presents another new single “City Is Taken”. It shows a different side of the outfit and demonstrates a gorgeous number with a narrative about the band’s relationship to gentrification.
The track is out with the music video directed by Luca Balser that features BODEGA’s Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio performing the track throughout a nocturnal NYC in front of defunct venues from the city’s storied musical past alongside the commercial banks and chain restaurants of today.
Watch below and pre-order the record here.
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