#Erin Birgy

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7/28/24.

I came across iji the other day, liked the cover and gave it a listen. The slightly warbly voice made me immediately think of a cross between Daniel Johnston and Matthew Sawyer. So I clicked through to the release and was really blown away by who plays on this album.

Zach Burba (the songwriter here) is a longtime musician who has played with Katy Davidson in Dear Nora. Katy returns the favor by playing on "Automatically". But so does Adrienne Lenker (Big Thief), Luke Csehak (The Lentils), Erin Birgy (Mega Bog). And that's just a partial list of the collaborators on "Automatically".

Burba and iji are based in Los Angeles. This is being released by We Be Friends, a label located in Queens, New York.

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UNDER THE RADAR: Watch Adrianne Lenker’s New Mega Bog–Directed Video for “Evol”

UNDER THE RADAR: Watch Adrianne Lenker’s New Mega Bog–Directed Video for “Evol” “The Bright Future track gets a rustic slice-of-life visual. Adrianne Lenker has shared another music video for a Bright Future cut. This time, it’s “Evol,” and she tapped Mega Bog’s Erin Birgy to direct it. In the clip, Lenker does pushups, tosses hay bales, and watches sheep roam on a farm among a rotating cast of…

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Mega Bog - End Of Everything

Me he estado planteando escribir algo sobre Tina Turner que, como todos sabréis, falleció ayer a los 83 años. Pero lo cierto es que no podría añadir mucho más a lo que se ha dicho ya. Además, no soy muy de obituarios, así que sigo con mi plan inicial para hoy. Y ese plan es comentar el nuevo trabajo de Mega Bog. El proyecto de la norteamericana Erin Elizabeth Birgy no es muy conocido para el gran…

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Mega Bog - End Of Everything Erin Birgy, die treibende Kraft hinter Mega Bog schreckt nicht vor Experimenten zurück. In den vergangenen sechs Alben des Projekts ist Birgys Arsenal an Avantgard-Pop-Werkzeugen jedes Mal gewachsen, und mit jedem Album wird das Mega-Bog-Universum bunter. Auf “End Of Everything” sucht Birgy nach einer eisigen, glitzernden Synthpop-Palette und holte sich Kollaborateure wie den Co-Produzenten und […] https://www.musikblog.de/2023/05/mega-bog-end-of-everything/ #BigThief #Drugdealer #MegaBog #Westerman #Album #Avantgarde #IndiePop #SynthPop

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IN A MINUTE:

A_NEW_MUSICAL_EXPRESS… // @baritaliaa are here w/ “PUNKT,” the official lead single from their forthcoming debut LP titled ‘Tracey Denim’ (5/19 @matadorrecords) & it finds the London-based trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi & Sam Fenton trading verses across 2+ mins of moodily propulsive, melancholically glum & guitar-driven AltRock. “NOT ME, THE CAR” is the lead single from @blast.cells’ forthcoming self-titled EP (4/28 @moderngrievance) & it finds the Seattle-based quartet of Casey Diana Dickson (vox) Daniel Joshua Schultz (bass), Jeffrey Florencio Poso (drums) & Jonathan Lee Cizek (guitar) bringing their frenzied PostHardcore. “MUST BE TEARS” is the final single in the run-up to @laelneale’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Star Eaters Delight’ (4/21 @subpop) & it finds the Los Angeles-based artist living her flip_phone_lyfe while bringing the hazily retro’d goods across 3+ mins of MinimalistTranscendentalPop. “WE DON’T FUCK” is the lead single from @fearofherowndesire’s forthcoming LP titled ‘eternal bliss now!’ (5/19 @candlepin_records) & it finds the NY-based artist bringing the bitter goods across 3 ½ mins of dreamily dazed, bedroom_popped & transgender_ego_death_rawking Alt. @mega_bog are here w/ “CACTUS PEOPLE,” the final single/lead track from her forthcoming LP titled ‘End Of Everything’ (5/19 @mexican_summer) & it finds multi-instrumentalist Erin Elizabeth Birgy’s LA-based “nightmarish experimental pop ensemble” bringing 3 ½ mins of ancient_moding SynthWave. “FATHER’S DAUGHTER” is the latest single from @shangri_lass’ forthcoming debut EP titled ‘Over & Over’ (4/28 @redundantspan) & it finds the Sheffield-based musician/Sister Wives’ bassist Rose Love bringing a 3:39 clip of retro-tinged & stomp-tastic PsychPop.

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Sound Off: 10 New Songs You Need to Hear Now It's impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the music world. The only criteria: they all have to absolutely rip.Lana Del Rey — "Fishtail" For my money, this is one of the best – if not the best – cut from Lana Del Rey’s sublime ninth album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. Although it has the hazed-out, psychedelic tenor of an Ultraviolence cut, its alienation is ratcheted up with washes of acidic, fragmented autotune – a cannily destabilizing production choice. NEW YORK — "night n day" This extremely ungoogleable duo is one of my favorite new acts to have emerged last year – don’t sleep on their debut album No Sleep Til NY – and “night n day” retains the disorienting atmosphere of that record: It sounds like your sleep paralysis demon dressed up in its most glittery club outfit and decided to have a night on the town. BIA and Timbaland — "I'M THAT BITCH" Although drill isn’t BIA’s main mode, she sounds great over this sleek, sinewy drill beat, proving just how far she can expand her aesthetic horizons without losing a sense of her identity.Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro — "BESO" Aside from the very splashy real-life metanarrative of this song – Rauw and Rosalía announced their engagement in the song’s video – this is a gorgeously romantic opener to the pair’s sublime new joint EP RR.Shygirl and Björk — "Woe (I See It From Your Side)" Björk totally makes this Shygirl track her own, retaining the song’s breathy, industrial atmosphere while ratcheting up the song’s tension and alienesque cast. Related | Shygirl Discovers Her Ultimate Fantasy on 'Nymph'Mega Bog — "Love Is" Mega Bog, aka Erin Birgy, gets an assist from Westerman on this vast, skyward-looking synth-pop track, a song that places the inquisitive, wide-eyed Birgy firmly at the center of the dance floor. JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown — "Steppa Pig" Although much of JPEGMafia and Danny Brown’s new collab album Scaring the Hoes is an abrasive, spectacular adrenaline rush, there’s also an intricacy and grandiosity to the production that shines through — "Steppa Pig" is a perfect example.Related | JPEGMAFIA Is Doing It All WrongDaft Punk with Todd Edwards — "The Writing of Fragments of Time" This cut from the new Random Access Memories 10th-anniversary box set is, like the immortal “Giorgio by Moroder," a song about the making of a song – a kind of documentary in the form of a sublime disco track.yunè pinku — "Sports" Another sleek, stylish heater from Yunè Pinku: “Sports” is as vaporous as it is embodied, somehow existing in two states of matter at once. It’s an ingratiating, sing-songy teaser for her new EP Babylon IX.Flo Milli with Monaleo and Gloss Up — "Bed Time" Emasculation-rap dream team Flo Milli and Monaleo reunite on this hard-as-nails new track that recalls 2000s classics. As ever, this track is a wealth of perfect one-liners — the "shout out to Santa" burn might be my favorite.Photo courtesy of Interscope Records https://www.papermag.com/sound-off-lana-del-rey-2659651605.html

[dustedmagazine]

Mega Bog — Dolphine (Paradise of Bachelors)

Dolphine by Mega Bog

On Mega Bog’s fifth album, Dolphine, jazzy vibraphone, woodwinds and major-seventh chords played on nylon-string guitar suggest an atmosphere of leisurely repose and dreamy dissolution, while fleet-footed song structures and skewed lyrical imagery convey an uneasiness that’s hard to shake. Superficially reminiscent of the whimsical confections of British band Pram, but with a predilection for Grimm’s fairy tales rather than science fiction, these songs impishly dart away from attempts to apprehend their essence.

At a succinct 36 minutes, the album both whistles by and takes its sweet time. Erin Birgy sits at the center of it all, wide-eyed and giggling, having colonized an enviable middle ground between prog-folk and jazz-pop. From her backing band, which includes Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and James Krivchenia (Big Thief), she coaxes plenty of what Frank Zappa referred to as “eyebrows” — musical details that really make songs come alive. At times, these eyebrows are raised in wonder; at others, they’re furrowed in concern.  

The album is bisected by “Spit in the Eye of the Fire King,” a breezy acoustic track sung by guitarist Ash Rickli, who passed away after the album’s completion. Dolphine commemorates the loss in a tightrope walk between whimsy and tragedy.  

The most divisive element in the songs is Birgy’s vocal delivery. Her voice is breathy and skittish, occasionally stumbling through her words like a beat poet caught in the rush of inspiration, or blankly enunciating a la Nico. On “Truth in the Wild,” Birgy intones, “Never smother the mystical song that lies deep inside you.” It sounds like her tongue is firmly in her cheek, yet it’s hard to be sure. The only point at which her voice becomes grating is on the otherwise instrumental “Fwee Again,” a follow-up of sorts to “Fwee,” the closing track on previous album Happy Together. Here the gleeful gibberish she spouts over the climax oversells the feeling of joyful abandon already latent in the music. (The vocalizations initially sound like air rushing out of the neck of a balloon.) For the most part, Birgy’s excitability lends the album an infectious charm.  

Ultimately, Mega Bog deserves to be appreciated alongside similarly talented proponents of the absurd, such as Aldous Harding and Cate le Bon. Dolphine is a strange and affecting listen; the sound of a free-wheeling afternoon in the sun curdling into early-evening shadows.  

Tim Clarke

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Mega Bog  - Maybe You Died

Gorgeous new album dropping from Mega Bog July 22nd, pre-order via bandcamp the vinyl along with “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.” 

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As part of Northside Festival, Big Thief celebrated their acclaimed second album’s release on Friday night at Rough Trade NYC. Read our review and check out the rest of these photos.

Photos courtesy of Charles Steinberg | charlesosteinberg.com

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4/11/19.

Erin Birgy is Mega Bog.  I was introduced to her music years ago when I bought the excellent LP “Happy Together” (released on the Los Angeles label Nicey Music.  While “Diary of a Rose” is the only current song available from her upcoming release “Dolphine” it recalls her earlier releases vocally.  There’s no doubt that this is Erin Birgy.

This release has a much richer instrumentation.  And I guess the fact that it was recorded over the course of two years with the help of numerous musicians (notably Meg Duffy of Hand Habits and The War on Drugs).

This is being released by the ever reliable Paradise of Bachelors (North Carolina)

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Mega Bog Announces New Album End of Everything, Shares Video for New Song: Watch

Erin Elizabeth Birgy’s follow-up to Life, and Another arrives in May via Mexican Summer from RSS: News https://ift.tt/jdQxbnw

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Mega Bog Announces New Album End of Everything, Shares Video for New Song: Watch

Erin Elizabeth Birgy’s follow-up to Life, and Another arrives in May via Mexican Summer from RSS: News https://ift.tt/zo1TSvu via IFTTT

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MusikBlog präsentiert Mega Bog Wer da? Mega Bog, das Musikprojekt der US-amerikanischen Singer/Songwriterin Erin Birgy aus Idaho. Vor 2009 trat sie auch unter den Namen Little Swamp und Midi Marsh auf. Und was macht die so für ‘nen Sound? Rhytmische Meisterschaft wilder, perkussiven Geist von James Krivchenia (Big Thief), der die Platte mit Birgy koproduzierte, fantasievolle Texturen und schwere […] https://www.musikblog.de/2023/05/musikblog-praesentiert-mega-bog/ #MegaBog #Avantgarde #Experimental #News #SingerSongwriter #SynthPop

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Live Review: Cate Le Bon at Arts Club in Liverpool 21 March 2022

Live Review: Cate Le Bon at Arts Club in Liverpool 21 March 2022

Words: Andy Hughes You’d be forgiven for not knowing what to expect from a band called ‘Mega Bog‘ (but then again, what the heck would you expect The Beatles or King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to sound like anyway?) Unpredictable is how it ends up panning out, the work of guitarist and vocalist Erin Birgy actually sounding a lot closer to headliner Cate Le Bon than expected. Accompanied by…

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Mega Bog — Life, and Another (Paradise of Bachelors)

Photo by Jasper McMahon

Life, and Another by Mega Bog

Erin Birgy creates engrossing tension in her music as Mega Bog, juxtaposing giddy rushes of words with music that can possess languid elegance; decadence, even. There’s an excitable, joyful energy that brings to mind hearing childhood stories read aloud, stories in which fantastical or forbidden things are happening. The chasm between the magical world of childhood and the sober world of adulthood is bridged, braided, dashed between. It evokes the thrill of finding one of your parents’ LPs and stepping into a new world in which you don’t quite understand what’s going on, but you definitely want to know more.

On Life, and Another’s excellent first single, “Station to Station,” there’s evidence that Birgy has joined the masses of musicians discovering the exciting world of synthesizers. Thankfully it’s handled deftly, and the use of synths doesn’t dominate the record; there’s still plenty of jazzy, folky pop music that made her previous album, 2019’s Dolphine, such an off-kilter joy. In my Dusted review I highlighted its liminal sound of “a free-wheeling afternoon in the sun curdling into early-evening shadows.” Though that atmosphere is also found here, 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. 

“Station to Station” aside, much of the album’s first half rattles past at a fair clip; it’s no surprise, then, to hear producer James Krivchenia’s hearty laugh erupt at the start of “Crumb Back,” clearly tickled by all the colorful melodic ideas tumbling past. “Butterfly” is especially infectious, its piano, bass and drum groove punctuated by eruptions of gnarly guitar noise and saxophone. Side A draws to a sobering close with the wonderful title track, which pivots between skittish verses and expansive choruses. 

Side B is more varied, more fractious, more shadowy, and dominated by some lengthy instrumental passages. The modulated electric guitar on “Maybe You Died” weaves a chilly, haunting spell before giving way to some glorious bass, sax and synth interplay. “Beagle in the Cloud,” a miniature earworm for synth and voice, seems to revisit a painful childhood memory in its vivid lyrics: “I haven’t aged since I was four years old… Who’s had it up to here in being treated like an irritant? … How dare you.” “Darmok” is an evocative, wordless diversion for electric guitar and synth, while the stomping Sonic Youth-esque chug of “Bull in Heaven” (perhaps an allusion to SY’s “Bull in the Heather”?) is interrupted by the shimmering “Obsidian Lizard.” It’s as if the ideas are elbowing each other out of the way for the attention they deserve. 

At 44 minutes, Life, and Another is lengthy compared to many new albums, but its 16 diverse tracks all earn their inclusion, each piece of the tapestry finely crafted and lovingly stitched into place. Few albums released so far this year have felt quite so magical and transportive, carried along by a mischievous dream-like narrative. 

Tim Clarke

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L'avant-pop di Mega Bog con l'album «Life, and Another»

★ L'avant-pop di Mega Bog con il nuovo album «Life, and Another»

La cantautrice statunitense Mega Bog (all’anagrafe Erin Birgy) torna con un altro delizioso album di avant-pop dal titolo Life, and Another. Pubblicato il 23 luglio 2021 da Paradise of Bachelor, Life, and Another di Mega Bog vede la partecipazione di Zach Burba (iji) e James Krivchenia dei Big Thief, che ha anche co-prodotto il disco. (La redazione) Life, and Another by Mega Bog