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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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Cover of All Inside Aquarium — Cover via the Cover Art Archive ↗

Album · Chrysalis · released 9 Oct 2026

All Inside Aquarium

BODEGA

XLR rating

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Out of 10 · awaiting a listen by the desk

Press score

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Not collected yet · the reviews we read are linked below

Spotify ↗Apple Music ↗Bandcamp ↗YouTube ↗

Nothing plays on this page · Bandcamp open the artist’s page, not this record · Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube open a search

Tracklist

01All Inside Aquarium4:15SGR
02Weather Me—:—SGR
03Literary World—:—SGR
04Astro Night Ride—:—SGR
05Pick Up the Check4:39SGR
06Oxygen—:—SGR
07Fear Not the Fear—:—SGR
08Slow Train (Bob Dylan)—:—SGR
09Combustible—:—SGR
10Pile Driver—:—SGR
11Backbeaten—:—SGR
12Olivia—:—SGR

12 tracks · Titles and lengths from MusicBrainz ↗ (CC0), checked 9 Oct 2026 · tracks: Skip · Good · On repeat, by the desk, after listening

The desk’s take

Awaiting a listen.

When someone on the desk has heard the whole record, they write a paragraph here and sign it

What the press said

9 OctBodega tell us about new album ‘All Inside Aquarium’: “We decided to make proper rock without the ‘indie’ modifier”NME ↗
Bodega have spoken to NME about their new “proper rock” album ‘All Inside Aquarium’, their quest to be “a band that is without limitations”, and the experience of recording outside New York for the…
8 OctReview: Bodega – ALL INSIDE AQUARIUM: Postpunk war gesternMusikexpress ↗
Die New Yorker überraschen mit Alt-Rock-Revival statt Postpunk. Eigentlich galten sie doch als US-amerikanische Postergirls und -boys und -they/thems für Postpunk, die New Yorker von Bodega.

Headlines and short excerpts from the stories we read, each linked to its source · more appear as the press publishes them

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Release data: MusicBrainz ↗, matched from ListenBrainz new releases named in our headlines on 9 Oct 2026