Bodega Share “Jack in Titanic” Video, Announce Tour in Support of Parquet Courts-Produced Debut Album
Images via Mert Gafuroglu, What's Your Rupture?
NYC art-rock quintet Bodega have shared the third single and video from their forthcoming debut album, Endless Scroll, out on June 1 via What’s Your Rupture?
Paste recently featured Bodega on our list of 15 new NYC bands to know in 2018, particularly due to their driving guitars, infectious art-punk spirit and droll lyricism (“Your playlist knows you better than a closest lover”). Their 14-track debut LP was produced by Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown and it features an experimental, fluid sound with hints of everything from post-punk and pop to hip-hop and krautrock.
After the release of previous singles “How Did This Happen?!” and “Can’t Knock The Hustle,” their new track, “Jack in Titanic,” is a punk ode to Leonardo Di Caprio’s Jack Dawson from the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.
The band’s co-frontman Ben Hozie says of the song’s unusual subject matter:
“Jack in Titanic” is about learned male behavior and the nostalgia for it. One day I realized that my unspoken internal values ‘of what it means to be a man’ were inherited from the dubious fantasy of the movies, particularly my childhood models: James Bond, Jackie Chan, and Jack (in Titanic). Jack, of course, is also an archetypal rock and roll hero: road warrior, poor yet able to maneuver class, loyal friend, incredible dancer, fantastic lover (in the back of cars), wonderful with graphic design (could do his own cover art), and weapon against the aristocracy (and all things bureaucratic and mannered).
Directed by the band’s other lead vocalist Nikki Belfiglio and Bodega ally Corey Eisenberg, the new video is set within the brutalist, tech-inspired Endless Scroll cover art, where the band performs with each of their members separated by computer monitors.