#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

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Mega Bog feat. Westerman - “Love Is”

Photo by Amanda Jasnowski Pascual

It is easy to say what you want, but it’s another thing to truly put that energy into the universe. “Love Is”, the second single from Mega Bog’s forthcoming sixth full-length effort, End of Everything, is an invitational to a power greater than one’s self, but at the same time, can only come from the self. Resoundingly one of Erin Elizabeth Birgy’s most cohesively designed ventures into her art-pop wilderness, the listen -- originally penned by Birgy’s friend, Austin Jackson of jazz-punk band Dragons -- is elevated into a dancefloor anthem where her newfound explorations into bodies of synthscapes sweeping and trumpeting amid percussion are excited by ready desires to be whelmed by romantic forces. “And let me / Get lost / In your eyes / One more time,” she sings, with the ghostly heat of Westerman’s equal yearning nearby. “Show me what love is.” As the listen soars higher and higher, Birgy never does come down from her cloud, and it’s like she’s shifting the universe into her favor.

Directed by: Allison Goldfarb

Mega Bog’s End of Everything will be released May 19th on Mexican Summer.

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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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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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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  - 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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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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Video: Mega Bog - “Maybe You Died”

Mega Bog -- the songwriting moniker of multi-instrumentalist Erin Bigby -- will be releasing her latest effort Life, and Another next week. As the album cycle has progressed with the desert-permeated avant pop of “Station to Station” or the chamber pop caviar of “Weight of the Earth, On Paper” and “Crumb Back”, light has never been elusive in her movements, but on the album’s final preview “Maybe You Died”, Bigby transcends time and dimension to a place where the lack there of reveals a side of her sound that is, in her words, “dark, leathered, supernatural, horny, evil.” Though tenderness remains apparent across the icy borealis of synth transmissions and nightsprawling guitar, Birgy’s voice hushes a howl in the duality of uncertainty in the present and hyper-awareness of her immediate surroundings.

The beautiful suspense of its music video, which Bigby directed on a vintage VHS camcorder, features a midnight scooter ride through Los Angeles and a surreal murder plot. Get dead with Mega Bog below...

Mega Bog’s Life, And Another will be released July 23rd on 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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Mega Bog - “The Clown”

Photo by Amanda Jasnowski Pascual

“Met a young man who said, ‘You are everything’ / And gave me everything / But I really scared him / Because all I talk about with him is / Beheading young men,” Erin Birgy sings at one point on “The Clown”, the lead single from her art-pop project Mega Bog’s forthcoming seventh studio album, End of Everything. The listen, rich with mystery and climax, is akin to walking through a hall of mirrors. Carnival synths dash in and out of view and bright white light reflects distorted views that cause you to wonder: What is real and what is actually behind the makeup. “So, how do you see me, now? / Am I still that clown / You found charming?” The answer may hold an exit, or perhaps another twist and turn...

Directed by: Erin Birgy

Mega Bog’s End of Everything will be released May 19th on Mexican Summer.