MEGA BOG: DOLPHINE (PoB-049)

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. 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. Read more here.

NPR Music announced the record today and also premiered its first single “Diary of a Rose,” describing it as:

“Prismatic avant-pop that balances warbling melodies with unexpected bursts of frenetic energy. ‘Diary of a Rose’ is a lush representation of Birgy’s ability to evoke warmth and nostalgia while keeping her gaze to the future.”

“‘Diary of a Rose’ is a collage of images, melodies, and notions inspired by family, friends, and ancestors, created in a moment where, to be near any of them, I had to call to them from inside,” says Birgy. “The song was born in a moment free of time, all at once was all my love, recognizing the mystical power we all have to help each other live forever, and let it go again.”

Pre-Order Dolphine

$9.00 – $31.00

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Listen to “Diary of a Rose”

Contingent on manufacturing schedules, we will ship your pre-ordered album approximately a week in advance of the June 28, 2019 worldwide release date. All pre-orders include an immediate 320k MP3 download of lead single “Diary of a Rose,” as premiered by NPR Music. For digital-only preorders, please visit Bandcamp (which also offers uncompressed, high-resolution audio files) or your favorite digital marketplace.

• Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; heavy-duty matte board jacket; full-color inner sleeve with lyrics; and high-res Bandcamp download code.
• Deluxe clear vinyl LP edition is limited to 700 copies.
  
• CD edition features six-panel gatefold matte board jacket with LP replica art and lyrics.
  
• RIYL: Laurie Anderson, Slapp Happy, Kevin Ayers, Bridget St John, Beefheart, Bowie, Cate Le Bon, Ursula K. Le Guin
  
• Artist page/tour dates/links/back catalog

Acknowledgements for Mega Bog

Imagine an adventure game quest with Yoko Ono as your guide, or Laurie Anderson doing her best David Attenborough impression: a deep, joyful abstraction that draws to a pure, human conclusion.

– Pitchfork

Weird and comforting wooze … that unspools like lava-lamp bubbles.

– NPR

A multifaceted meteor of sonic delight orbiting an oceanic planet of playfulness and pain, where the sound of the music fragments in wondrous flame and falls like fire. Pulsating poetry!

– Adrienne Lenker, Big Thief

Evokes a different kind of lush, green fantasia — something about its wobbling saxophone and loosey-goosey guitar suggests a mysterious caper beneath the fronds of a vast weeping willow.

– Bandcamp

Her pensive reverbed whispers create a dreamy landscape that listeners have difficulty escaping. In it, they find tranquility.

– Interview

Swarms with cosmic curiosity. Its disembodied saxophones are straight out of the Black Lodge by way of Bowie’s Blackstar, weaving a jaunty path through an inviting yet disquieting haze.

–Pitchfork

A jazzy experimental rock track – spacious, warm, and eerie, with brass, guitar, and vocal melodies weaving in the ether.

– Stereogum

A soothsaying Laura Marling or a spacey Nico … The song cracks open, allowing backmasked slivers of guitar and wriggling solos to flood out – a new tributary finding its path.

– NPR

They have the power to transform the mundane into jazzy wonderlands. It’s freaky in the best way… like partying under the only willow tree in the desert.

– Pitchfork

Clean and percussive, with undertones of experimental jazz.

– Rookie