BODEGA

Pick Up
the Check

The first single from All Inside Aquarium, out May 6, 2026, with a video directed by Ben Hozie. It is set on an imagined date in a fancy-but-fake restaurant with art deco wallpaper; Hozie wrote it about friends who stay in relationships that don’t inspire them – romantic, creative or working – out of politeness, and its advice is to end it and take the check. Track five on the album.

BODEGA, New York; founded by Ben Hozie (guitar, vocals) and Nikki Belfiglio (vocals, percussion). Video directed by Ben Hozie. From All Inside Aquarium, the fourth BODEGA album, Chrysalis Records, October 9, 2026 – produced by Matt Peel at the Nave, his studio in a former church in Leeds (the band’s first record made outside New York), and mixed in Brighton by Theo Verney. Sources: God Is in the TV, The Line of Best Fit. Photograph: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., the Bull and Bear at the Waldorf-Astoria, 49th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, 1960. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (no known restrictions).