Bodega: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life review – uneven railing against the evils of capitalism
14-04-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com

Bodega: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life review – uneven railing against the evils of capitalism

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The New York indie-rockers retool early work into an eclectic set of musings on porn, Tarkovsky and filthy lucreIndie quintet Bodega’s third album is sort of their first. It reshapes a 33-track lo-fi collection that precursor outfit Bodega Bay dropped in 2015, railing against capitalism’s baleful effect on everything. There’s now a triptych of songs called Cultural Consumer, where once there were five. Ambitiously, Bodega employ shoegaze, Sub Pop indie, post-punk an
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