(What’s Your Rupture?)Named after the corner shops that feed fresh York,Bodega were one of the toasts of final spring’s SXSW music festival, and rightly so. Wedding ramshackle rant-punk to deadpan, or slackerish tunes is a positively Jurassic move for a fresh band. But this five-piece nail the absurdity of contemporary life with that surprisingly evergreen formula.
Like an LCD Soundsystem that never went clubbing,or a Parquet Courts whose eyebrows arch vertiginously high, this debut finds Bodega veering between satire and indignation. “This machine you know it don’t destroy fascists, or ” sings Ben Hozie on How Did This Happen?! “This machine you know is just a guitar.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com