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BODEGA’s new album was inspired by a book club. In the early months of  2020, the Brooklyn art-punk incendiaries gathered together with close  friends to study the works of a wide range of philosophers. Passionate  debates lasting long into the night became a regular occurrence,  motivating the band to become as ideologically unified as the weighty  tomes they were reading. Broken Equipment is BODEGA’s attempt to  interrogate the external factors that make them who they are, propelling  existential quandaries with tongue-in-cheek humour, highly personal  lyrics, and irresistible grooves.  In the album’s opening moments, vocalist Nikki Belfiglio urges  listeners to “watch the thrown.” She is joined by fellow founding member  Bodega Ben, who details various ways his personality is constantly  influenced, or “thrown”, by phenomena such as “big rock ads” or ‘“the  itch on my back.” This opening song (“Thrown”) serves as a thesis  statement for…