Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana
Today, New York City rock-and-roll quartet BODEGA announce their fourth full-length album All Inside Aquarium for an October 9th release via Chrysalis Records.
With it they share the record’s title-track single along with a limited edition 7” single, featuring vinyl exclusive B-side, “Since You Ask.” All Inside Aquarium is available for pre-order, with a Dinked exclusive featuring 7” single and Cloudy Blue vinyl, along with a limited Bandcamp exclusive edition featuring hand-painted alt artwork, by the band’s percussionist/vocalist Nikki Belfiglio.
Pre-order All Inside Aquarium
Purchase “All Inside Aquarium” 7” single
BODEGA will preview the album at three upcoming NYC hometown performances, including tomorrow night at Market Hotel for New York Music Month presented WFUV, July 8 at Central Park Summerstage with Spoon and Ratboy, along with a headline set, August 19 at Elsewhere Rooftop, before a September tour of Spain, plus London – a sold out 100 Club promises to be a special one – and Paris performances. Today the band also announce further November dates for London, Leeds and Bristol [all dates below].
Discussing “All Inside Aquarium,” guitarist/vocalist Ben Hozie notes, “This track is an attempt at an existential anthem. Pain (after it subsides) can bring you closer to a beatific perspective where dichotomy disappears and curious creativity calmly trickles out like the faucet tube in the tub —> Being there, you remember all is connected and paradoxically emerge more yourself despite recognizing you are a mere flake in the fish-tank of cosmic oneness. Nobody can really mess with your head except yourself when you take responsibility for your reality.”
The accompanying video, directed by Belfiglio, features the band green screened into the album artwork, a sculpture of the record brought to life with the assistance of a team of local New York artists. Discussing its creation, Belfiglio adds, “I spent all of October 2025 – February 2026 building a miniature world inside a fish tank for the ‘All Inside Aquarium’ album art. The miniature contains references to all of the songs on the upcoming album. All of the pieces inside the tank are made out of wood, paper maiche, clay, metal, paint, and various other items. While searching for these supplies I came across a discarded green screen cloth in a dumpster near a camera shop in Jamalis Gardens. I decided then to make a gag-filled green screen music video set inside the mini-world I created to capture the playfulness I felt while making the album art.”
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“I never thought of us as a post-punk band,” stresses Hozie. “I just thought of us as a conceptual rock band.” This might come as a surprise to those who’ve been following the band over the last several years. BODEGA’s previous albums — 2018’s Endless Scroll, 2022’s Broken Equipment, and 2024’s Our Brand Could Be Your Life — drew well-earned comparisons to post-punk icons like Talking Heads, the B-52s, Devo and Sonic Youth. “Post-punk is conceptual punk, so that lent itself to our thing early on,” says Hozie, “but at the end of the day, it’s about our songwriting.”
With All Inside Aquarium, BODEGA stray further from their perceived post-punk origins. The group’s goal was, “Let’s go back to melodic tunes, let’s be more of a proper rock band,” Hozie explains. Sonically, the band aimed for “this late ‘80s/early ‘90s Stone Roses-meets-Jane’s Addiction thing, with more riffing and guitar solos.”
The latter, in particular, were a major influence (Jane’s Addiction have been Hozie’s favorite band since high school), and there is indeed a palpable “Lollapalooza ‘91 Main Stage” vibe to the proceedings. “We were aiming at something larger, warmer, watery, and metaphysical, inspired by the optimistic alt rock of our half-remembered youth,” he notes.
“The way that we listen to music is so eclectic, and that’s how we approached this album too,” says Belfiglio. “You can have a hardcore song next to a folk song, because there’s no punks on the corner waiting to beat you up.” To wit, the album includes BODEGA’s radical reinvention of Bob Dylan’s “Slow Train,” the title track from his unfairly maligned 1979 album of the same name. Hozie cites the glammy, Navarro-esque solo on that track as one of his favourite moments on the album.
Where BODEGA’s previous LPs were largely recorded piecemeal, with the band members rarely in the same room, the group spent a month and a half in the UK working with producer Matt Peel (Yard Act, Eagulls) at the Nave, his studio set up in a deconsecrated church in Leeds (also featured in the album’s artwork). They played live, successfully capturing the energy of their live shows in a way that previous albums hadn’t quite nailed. The album was then mixed in Brighton with Theo Verney (English Teacher, Lime Garden).
Where the band’s earlier material took a more explicitly sociopolitical bent, Hozie and Belfiglio’s writing on All Inside Aquarium is deliberately less didactic and more concerned with poetics.
For Hozie, “If there’s one thesis song, it would be ‘Literary World.’ It’s kind of a playful tune, but it’s really about how what we’re lacking is not political consciousness – because one of the most amazing things post-2016 is that the whole world has developed a political consciousness – but literary or poetic consciousness. A literary perspective is an empathetic one, because if you’re a novelist, you have to understand the thinking of all of your characters, even if they’re the most egregious people.” The album’s first single, “Pick up the Check,” exemplifies this approach.
BODEGA’s newfound focus on poetics also resulted in some of the most personal material to date. “I had this epiphany that on earlier LP’s, I thought of my rock tunes and my ballads as two separate categories. I realized that I mostly only delved into personal material on ballads,” Hozie says, “So I was like, ‘Why couldn’t I write something emotionally direct and personal in a fast rock song?’”
Sonics aside, such a perspective is truly post-punk. Because this is what it looks like to grow beyond the righteous rage of youthful punk: An embrace of maturity, a sense of personal and interpersonal accountability, creative ambition, an open mind, an open heart, and the readiness to reinvent. That’s what All Inside Aquarium is all about.
Catch BODEGA live:
(Tickets)
06/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel (New York Music Month/WFUV)
07/08 – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage [FREE]
08/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Rooftop
09/04 – Tenerife, ES @ Phe Festival
09/05 – Miranda de Ebro, ES @ Ebrovisión Festival
09/07 – Madrid, ES @ El Sol
09/08 – Valencia, ES @ 16 Toneladas
09/09 – Barcelona, ES @ Upload
09/10 – Zaragoza, ES @ La Lata de Bombillas
09/11 – Donostia, ES @ Boga Boga Festival
09/13 – Asten-Heusden, NL @ Misty Fields Festival
09/15 – London, UK @ 100 Club [SOLD OUT]
09/16 – Paris, FR @ Pop Up! [SOLD OUT]
11/24 – Bristol, UK @ Electric Bristol
11/25 – London, UK @ The Garage
11/26 – Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
% w/ Spoon + Ratboys
BODEGA – All Inside Aquarium album artwork
BODEGA
All Inside Aquarium
Out October 9th on Chrysalis Records
Pre-Order
01. All Inside Aquarium
02. Weather Me
03. Literary World
04. Astro Night Ride
05. Pick up the Check
06. Oxygen
07. Fear not the Fear
08. Slow Train
09. Combustible
10. Pile Driver
11. Backbeaten
12. Olivia
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