Mega Bog’s Spectacular Life, and Another Is Out Now.

Mega Bog’s Spectacular Life, and Another Is Out Now.

Today is the day.

Mega Bog‘s spectacular Life, and Another has finally manifested on the material plane. Today you can find the digital and CD editions wherever you stream, download, or buy records in this world and certain others. The vinyl LP will be in shops on August 27, but our stock has already landed, so if you order directly from PoB, we’re now shipping all formats: the LP, CD, and the limited-edition photo and song book.

Read on for details about the record and the LA and NYC release shows, to watch Mega Bog’s three remarkable videos released to date, and for effusive praise from Pitchfork (who compare the evocative economy of Erin Birgy‘s writing to Hemingway‘s), Uncut, The Guardian, MOJO, Aquarium Drunkard, and more.

Buy the LP, CD, Limited-Edition Photo and Song Book, and Digital Album (all formats now shipping)

$9.00 – $40.00

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Life, and Another Record Release Shows

Mega Bog will play two release shows for Life, and Another: August 29th at Zebulon in Los Angeles (tickets HERE), and September 1 at Elsewhere in Brooklyn (tickets HERE).

Acclaim for Life, and Another

Life, and Another, the forthcoming album from Erin Birgy’s shapeshifting group Mega Bog, is so dense with information that it could conceivably come with its own volume of CliffsNotes… It’s a firehose of cryptic metaphors, veiled allusions, and seemingly disconnected thoughts sprayed against a bright, skeletal frame of jagged jazz-prog. At every turn lies a surfeit of detail that is thrilling and bewildering in equal measure.
“Maybe You Died,” though, is different. Where songs like “Weight of the Earth, on Paper” and “Crumb Back” are wiry and spry, this one is subdued: a sullen, minor-key slow burn led by the synths and guitars reminiscent of ’80s Springsteen in his elegiac mode. Birgy begins with a narrative setup whose economy could rival that of the world’s most famous six-word story: “Smell of wintergreen/Chewing gum/In a Coach leather bag/You gave me/Mom found/Curb sale/What an amazing/Two dollars,” she murmurs, covering four of the five senses in her first three lines alone. – Pitchfork

8/10. Wonderfully eclectic and strangely uplifting… a dense, fantastical odyssey… a grooving flight of fancy into humid rhythms, unhinged cabaret vocals, furious guitar, and free-jazz skronk. – Uncut

4 stars. As Life, and Another finishes, the lingering feeling is that it exists beyond definable time and space. Audaciously, it all coheres. The vision is precise and the execution meticulous. – MOJO

Chamber-popper Erin Birgy unveils her gem of a new album with a synth-pop ballad that wafts through with all the poignancy and loveliness of Prefab Sprout. – The Guardian

Join a Bog pool party in the “Weight of the Earth, on Paper” video.

5 stars. Erin Birgy is one of today’s finest, most unique singer-songwriters. Her new album Life, and Another is a sensual jewel, an invitation to get lost in richly detailed sounds and words that calls for repeated visits. It’s more adventurous—and even more effortlessly sophisticated_than 2019’s exquisite Dolphine. With its prismatic jazzy leanings, Birgy’s avant-pop has shades of Joni circa Hejira… Superb. – Shindig!

Here, she moves about in prismatic, somber synths, reflecting on transformations of the soul. – Aquarium Drunkard

There is something so addicting about the way Mega Bog’s Erin Birgy uses her voice within her music. Spacious and wide-reaching without feeling disjointed or disconnected, Mega Bog’s talent for wrapping the listener up and swallowing them in a cavern of emotion has never felt more tangible. – Paste

“Station to Station” is an earthy, mysterious creation inhabited by thick layers of synthesizer, fluid bass and Birgy’s breathy vocals. – Brooklyn Vegan

Life, and Another is more expansive, more colorful, and more engrossing than its predecessor. It’s everything that made previous Mega Bog releases enjoyable, but invested with an additional degree of ambition, creativity and craftsmanship that draws you in irresistibly. Few albums released so far this year have felt quite so magical and transportive, carried along by a mischievous dream-like narrative. – Dusted

Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; heavy-duty matte board jacket; insert with lyrics and credits; and high-res Bandcamp download code.
CD edition features gatefold jacket with LP replica art and insert with lyrics and credits.
All preorders include an immediate download of lead single “Station to Station.”
CD/book/digital release date: July 23, 2021
Vinyl LP release date: August 27, 2021

Watch the surreal “Station to Station” video.

Life, and Another: The Book

A sneak peak of the limited-edition “Life, and Another” photo and lyrics book.

In addition to the album’s LP, CD, and digital iterations, a limited-edition Life, and Another photo and song book (perfect bound, foil-stamped cover, 64 full-color pages, 300 copies only) featuring images, songwriting and studio notes, collages and texts by Erin Birgy, and drawings by Zach Burba, designed by Joel Gregory, is available, while supplies last, exclusively via Paradise of Bachelors. See above and below for a preview, or here for a quickie time-lapse.