Following the release of Life, and Another in July, Mega Bog is back on tour this fall, playing shows out west until mid-November. They’ll hit the road again in February, joined by Cate Le Bon, setting off on a North American and EU tour through the spring of 2022.
You’ve heard about the Dog Days, but we’re Cat People at PoB. Use coupon code CATNIGHTS to take 20% off most everything in the PoB webstore. Also, Mega Bog’s Life, and Another vinyl LP and Mike Polizze’s Dizzy Demos tape are now in shops. See Bog live!
Mega Bog’s spectacular Life, and Another has finally manifested on the material plane. Buy the CD and photo/lyrics book, pre-order the LP (in stores 8/27, but direct orders now shipping), stream/download everywhere, watch the three videos, and get tickets to the LA and NYC release shows.
Mega Bog’s cinematic, noirish video for “Maybe You Died,” featuring a midnight scooter ride through Los Angeles and a sinister (though ambiguous) murder, was directed by Birgy using vintage VHS camcorder equipment, with Bog bandmate Zach Burba and Louise Chicoine. Life, and Another is out July 23rd (vinyl out August 27th). Also, buy tickets for LA and Brooklyn record release shows and listen to Erin on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Mega Bog (the world-inhabiting moniker of song-animator Erin Birgy) presents a new, David Wojnarowicz-inspired single/video, “Weight of the Earth, on Paper,” off of her forthcoming album, Life, and Another, out July 23rd (vinyl out August 27th).
Watch Mega Bog’s surreal “Station to Station” video and pre-order the Life, and Another LP, CD, digital album, and/or limited-edition photo and lyrics book. Use coupon code LIFE for 25% off the Bog’s previous album Dolphine, only from the PoB webstore.
Mega Bog’s otherworldly new album Dolphine—lauded and laureled by the likes of NPR Music, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and The WIRE (who call it “one of 2019’s left field pop gems… a shimmering chiaroscuro [of] fully fledged delicious pop”—is now in stores and streaming worldwide. The band, who bloom and thrive in the live context, have announced North American and European tours.
Today, Mega Bog shares “Truth In The Wild,” the latest single off her forthcoming new album Dolphine. “I value this song more than maybe any other piece of music I’ve completed,” Bog’s Erin Birgy says. Thanks to Gorilla vs. Bear for premiering the Ursula Le Guin-inspired video, which “blurs the lines between the surreal and the profound in a way that she seems able to do like none other.”
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.”
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.”
