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Bodywash Share New Song La Renommée
Bodywash releases mesmeric new track La Renommée inspired by Sonic Youth.
In brief
Bodywash releases mesmeric new track La Renommée inspired by Sonic Youth. Bodywash's new song La Renommée, inspired by Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon's autobiography, features a fictional bartender and Montreal statue. Originally reported by Stereogum.
New Song Release
Bodywash shares new track La Renommée, a mesmeric rocker inspired by Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon's autobiography.
“I'd been reading Kim Gordon's autobiography and listening to a lot of EVOL -era Sonic Youth at the time and wanted to write a song that had the same hushed sense of urgency”
Song Inspiration
The track blends a fictional bartender with Montreal's La Renommée statue, a winged woman in Jeanne Mance Park.
“The lyrics are half about a fictional bartender, half about a real montreal statue called la renommée, a winged woman in jeanne mance parc”
Release Date
Laughing At Noise album drops November 20 on Light Organ.
The bottom line
Bodywash's new song La Renommée, inspired by Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon's autobiography, features a fictional bartender and Montreal statue.
