Today in-demand Paris-based artist and producer Sega Bodega announces his third studio album ‘Dennis’, out April 26th via his own new label ambient tweets. He also shares new single ‘Elk Skin’
Dennis explores the experience of a day in which you can’t be sure you woke up at all. Each song blends into the next as you sink deeper into REM sleep. Dennis is a translation of how this feels.
Sega Bodega’s records have always lent themselves to introspective listening as easily as they fill dancefloors, but with Dennis, the intention is to go harder: this is a club record to lose yourself in. “Adulter8” begins with the tinker of an 8-bit alarm clock before spiriting you away into a dazzling, drop-heavy floor filler; voices emerge into the light before receding back into the dark they came from. And “Elk Skin”, which calls on vocalist Cecile Believe, is a dislocating blend of euphoric highs, Mediterranean guitar rhythms and subterranean chanting.
Other tracks orbit around a defining image. “Deer Teeth” was inspired by a 7000-year-old Mesolithic burial of a woman and her baby who had died in childbirth in Vedbæk, Denmark. They were found with 200 deer teeth; the baby was cradled in the wing of a swan. This trance-like track, calling on the voice of Kiss Facility counterpart Mayah Alkhateri, twists sweet melodies into something with an unsettling, metallic flavour. It’s both of the future and yet, at the same time, recalls something far more primordial.
Sega Bodega has just finished an 8- week ‘Lose Yourself with..’ Sunday night residency on BBC 6Music with guests such as Shygirl, BEA1991, POiSON GiRL FRiEND and Marina Herlop — listen back to all episodes HERE.
Dennis Tracklist
1. Coma Dennis
2. Adulter8
3. Elk Skin
4. Kepko
5. Dirt
6. Set Me Free, I’m An Animal
7. Deer Teeth
8. True
9. Tears & Sighs
10. Humiliation Doesn’t Leave A Mark
11. Coma Salv
PREORDER/PRESAVE ‘DENNIS’ HERE
Sega Bodega Live Dates:
Friday 31st May – Primavera Festival, Spain
Saturday 6th July – Roskilde Festival, Denmark
Thursday 11th July – Melt Festival, Germany
Thursday 18th July – Dour Festival, Belgium
Saturday 24th August – Field Day Festival, UK
Fri 1st November – C2C Festival, Italy
Tickets at https://segabodega.sup.nr/tickets