Brooklyn’s Bodega has revealed a new single titled, “Statuette On The Console.” The track is taken off of their new album, Broken Equipment, out March 11 on What’s Your Rupture?. Following both singles “Thrown” and “Doers,” “Statuette On The Console” is a propulsive, post-punk pace-setter. In the video directed by Nikki, she pokes fun at our dependence on fragile, fleeting technology.
Bodega’s Nikki Belfiglio explores switched perspectives; she recorded versions of the track in nine different languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian, which can all be viewed here.
Nikki offers: “I have a certain reverence for the symbols of religion; creating iconography with antiquated technology is a big part of my process for the art of Bodega. I cast myself as the titular statuette on the console, miming the song on top of an old television set, wearing a halo made out of a laser disc. I also created a giant iPhone dongle out of cardboard, fabric and pillow stuffing. In our tech-obsessed world, the dongle is a symbol with godlike powers of animating silence. I see something tragic in the fragility of these dongles and our dependence on them. It’s only a matter of days before they become broken equipment.”
The follow-up to the band’s acclaimed debut album, Endless Scroll (2018), and 2019’s Shiny New Model EP, the 12 songs that makeup Broken Equipment are set in present day New York City, packing in references to contemporary issues of algorithmic targeting, media gentrification, and the band itself. It was inspired by a book club during which the Brooklyn art-punk incendiaries gathered together with close friends to study the works of a wide range of philosophers.
Broken Equipment is Bodega’s attempt to interrogate the external factors that make them who they are, propelling existential quandaries with tongue-in-cheek humor, highly personal lyrics, and irresistible grooves.
Broken Equipment track list:
1. Thrown
2. Doers
3. Territorial Call Of The Female
4. NYC (disambiguation)
5. Statuette On The Console
6. C.I.R.P.
7. Pillar On The Bridge Of You
8. How Can I Help Ya?
9. No Blade Of Grass
10. All Past Lovers
11. Seneca The Stoic
12. After Jane
Preorder Broken Equipment here.
