NYC’s cultural commentators BODEGA have announced Brand On The Run, the deluxe edition of their album, Our Brand Could Be Yr Life.

The expanded version options seven tracks, 4 beforehand unreleased, together with “Cry When Yr Younger,” a canopy of the defunct New York band Milk Dick that Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio used to performed repeatedly of their early days as Bodega Bay, and three restricted version B-sides.

“‘Adaptation of the Reality About Marie’ is an adaptation of the 2011 novel, The Reality About Marie by the Belgium novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint,” notes Hozie. “As filmmakers get to adapt novels into films, I assumed it will be enjoyable to adapt a e-book right into a track. I took some liberties with the plot however the psychological thrust and dramatic state of affairs are the identical (a love triangle involving demise). This track is paired with our A-side single ‘Tarkovski’ as a result of that track was additionally written as a response to studying a e-book (Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in Time). The music video is a homage to one in all my favorite pastimes: studying e-book in a heat tub.”

Model On The Run is a group of tracks that go with Our Model Might Be Yr Life. Like Our Model, these songs are ‘remakes’ of songs from Ben and Nikki’s primordial group, Bodega Bay (2013-2016). Three of the tracks had been B-sides to that album’s singles; “Adaptation of the Reality about Marie” pairs w/ “Tarkovski,” ”N.A.S.S.” (New Age Spineless Sophists) pairs w/ “Metropolis Is Taken”, and “Cultural Shopper IV” pairs w/ “Cultural Shopper III.”

Hozie continues, “Like ‘Our Model’, this assortment explores the existential disaster that comes with a life dedicated to underground rock music. To enhance our dissection of underground rock mythos, we discover numerous genres reminiscent of Madchester (“Myrtle Parade”), shoegaze (“Music Corridor of Williamsburg”), jangle pop (“Adaptation Of The Reality About Marie”), no wave (“N.A.S.S.”), post-punk (‘Hear w/ yr eyes’), and glam (“Cultural Shopper IV”).”

Tracklist:

Facet A

1. Devoted To The Devoted
2. G.N.D. Deity
3. Bodega Bait
4. Tarkovski
5. Main Amberson
6. Stain Gaze
7. Webster Corridor
8. ATM
9. Set The Controls For The Coronary heart Of The Drum
10. Protean
11. Born Into By What Consumes
12. Cultural Shopper I
13. Cultural Shopper II
14. Cultural Shopper III
15. Metropolis Is Taken

    Facet B

1. Myrtle Parade
2. Cry When Yr Younger
3. Music Corridor of Williamsburg
4. Hear w/ Yr Eyes
5. Adaptation of the Reality about Marie
6. Cultural Shopper IV
7. N.A.S.S.