Mega Bog Is Back with Life, and Another.

Mega Bog Is Back with Life, and Another.

It’s been a minute, but we are delighted to be back, in the fine company of Mega Bog (the world-inhabiting moniker of song-animator Erin Birgy) and their mysterious new album Life and Another, which manifests this summer as a vinyl LP, CD, and a special photo and lyrics book (limited to 300 copies).

Birgy and her magical cohort return with another fantastical off-world transmission, the most sophisticated, exploratory, and accessible statement yet from surrealist songwriter and avant-pop prospector Erin Birgy. Featuring James Krivchenia (Big Thief), who co-produced, Zach Burba (iji), and Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) among its cast of vibrant players, Life, and Another bristles with painterly technicolor surface textures while plumbing fathomless depths of feeling. Departing from the humid spider plant nursery of previous record Dolphine (2019)—see coupon code below—Life, and Another brings us back to our home planet, into the rarefied air pressure of a desert valley where its fourteen songs were written and scattered like stones in the landscape, each one a precious gem chiseled by Birgy.

We begin our journey inward with “Station to Station“ (its title borrowed from Bowie), featuring a ravishing video directed by Laura Conway, shot in the alien landscapes of rural Colorado and its Paint Mines.

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“With this video we tried to play with narratives of attachments and roles played by important people in our lives, how they morph, begin, and end in mysterious points of space, time, feeling. Attachments are inevitable, on some level, but was that person any of the things we’ve projected, why and how did we build the narrative for what is necessary for survival, and within the video, was that figure ever even there, or did they appear because of something extraordinary we found in the dust, and ate?“

– Erin Birgy

“The video was made during a season of death and tectonic shifts in my life and the world. Before vision calcifies as it does during times of stability, it is my hope that here things can be seen as they really are: porous. The sandy bubblegum rocks erode, and skin is as permeable as the disappearing clouds. This is the place where things will not keep being as they always were, and it is not possible to know who is you and who I. You may begin again while I may meet end after end. Or not.”

– Laura Conway

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

Life, and Another: The 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 below for a preview.