Name: Xtra Equipment
Brand: BODEGA

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Bonus disc: No

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WYR123LP

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Clear

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Cybernetic Clear with Green Tint&nbsp;

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-22

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858053006773

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9999

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Artist

BODEGA

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New Wave / Post Punk

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What's Your Rupture?

Welcome to What's Your Rupture?, an American record label based in New York City. Owned and operated by Kevin Pedersen, this label has been making waves in the music industry since its inception. With a focus on promoting emerging artists and providing a platform for their unique sounds, What's Your Rupture? is dedicated to bringing you the best of independent music.

At What's Your Rupture?, we pride ourselves on our diverse roster of talented *artists*. From indie rock to post-punk, our label represents a wide range of genres that are sure to captivate any music lover. We believe in supporting artists who push boundaries and challenge conventions, resulting in an exciting and dynamic catalog of releases.

With our finger firmly on the pulse of the underground music scene, What's Your Rupture? is constantly seeking out new talent and nurturing their careers. Our commitment to artist development ensures that each release receives the attention it deserves, helping our *performers* reach new heights in their musical journey.

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store". Held on one Saturday every April and every Black Friday in November, the day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores around the world.

Record Store Day 2023

Xtra Equipment&nbsp; is a new collection of Bodega tracks from the same 2020-2021 Trout Studio sessions that spawned Broken Equipment. Much like the songs on Broken Equipment, we were trying to make these tracks extra breezy and hooky as well as more philosophically ambitious than our previous recordings. Even when in the mode of social critique, I personally tend to think of my songwriting as more literary than analytic but here the ‘The Art of Advertising’ and ‘Art and Advertising’ diptych functions as a sort of pop rock treatise on the subtle but crucial distinction between art and advertising (’Art creates cosmos’ whereas advertising ‘surface(s) status quo’). ‘Everybody’s Sad’ (the THROWN b-side) highlights and bemoans the connection between the current pop obsession with individuality and the aesthetics of melancholy (‘everybody’s sad at the top of the billboard’). ‘Top Hat No Rabbit’ (the DOERS b-side) was written coming down from a Ulysses(Joyce) induced high - it’s a flurry of thoughts attempting to reconcile free will (necessary for any change) with my deep-seated belief (and BODEGA obsession) that all thought is determined (or ‘thrown’) by external and/ or physical stimuli. Conversely, I wrote the opening ballad ’Memorize w/ yr Heart’ (previously only available as a bonus track&nbsp;on the Broken Equipment CD) to remind myself not to get stuck in abstract mind games — most of all philosophy should be done with the body (or at least with a steady backbeat). 

In some ways every recording is a response to an earlier record; Broken and Xtra Equipment were written to both expand upon our previous strengths as well as explore terrain outside of the post-punk milieu we found ourselves painting in previously. I hesitate to say that any recording of a single song is ‘better’ than another (they are just different versions of a tune) but the synth and drum machine led ‘Post yr Kilimanjaro’ (a recent reworking of our nu wave jammer ‘Doers’) sounds much closer to what I had in mind when I wrote the track. We also recorded two covers very different in timbre from their original source(s): Fugazi’s ‘Provisional’ was originally recorded for a Ripcord Records comp to raise funds for an animal shelter in Scotland (we are vegans) and Stretch Arm Strong’s ‘For the Record’ is a loving homage to one of the most important band’s in my life. I spent most of my youth in Columbia, South Carolina (where Stretch are from) and it was as a teen at their all ages hardcore matinees where I first experienced DIY music in the flesh. (‘We sweat and sang together and it helped us to carry on’).

Xtra Equipment

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