Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Out of Sight, lauded as “one of the most life-affirming and transcendent Americana albums in an age” by MOJO and celebrated with a NY Times profile and a five-star review in The Guardian, is now available in stores and streaming worldwide. Please consider a visit to Jake’s world this weekend; we guarantee you’ll leave refreshed.
Jubilate, y’all! Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Out of Sight is out in one week, on June 7, and preorders are now shipping. Hear new single “Jubilee” (premiered by Uncut Magazine on their July covermount CD) and all five songs on Side A.
Jake shares two new songs, and their stories, from Out of Sight via Folk Radio UK. Check out North American tour dates with Daniel Norgren and profiles in Uncut and MOJO magazines.
The striking and surreal video, directed by Laura Conway and premiered by Stereogum, features Erin Birgy roaming the American West in chainmail and was inspired by the work of classic filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Parajanov, David Lynch, and Michael Powell. Birgy writes that she and her collaborators “tried to visually inspire the jumps from the old and new worlds that are a part of a dreaming human’s bubble of thought.”
Today, Jake Xerxes Fussell shares new single, “Michael Was Hearty,” from his forthcoming album, Out of Sight, out June 7th. Following the lead single, “The River St. Johns,” “Michael Was Hearty” is a gorgeous rendition of a tragicomedy by Irish traveler and ballad singer Thomas McCarthy. Check out his impeccable Spotify playlist of spring jams as well.
Please join us in welcoming the magical Mega Bog to Paradise of Bachelors! Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. Preorder Dolphine and hear “Diary of a Rose,” which NPR describes as “prismatic avant-pop.”
Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. She is joined on her fifth and finest album (and first for PoB) by members of Big Thief, Hand Habits, and iji, who help her spin a manic web of emotions into beautiful, abstract future poems and thrilling genre perversions.
Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and PoB, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver, Summer 2019. Limited to an edition of 500 cassettes. All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018.
On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles and others. NPR Music’s All Songs Considered has premiered “The River St. John’s.” Pre-order with confidence and read an essay by Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
On his third and most finely wrought album yet, Jake is joined for the first time by a full band. An utterly transporting selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles and delights of love, work, and wine, collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed, Out of Sight contains, among other moving curiosities, a fishmonger’s cry that sounds like an astral lament; a cotton mill tune that humorously explores the unknown terrain of death and memory; and a fishermen’s shanty/gospel song equally concerned with terrestrial boozing and heavenly transcendence.
