Name: Life, and Another
Brand: Mega Bog

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

POB056LP

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

140 Gram Virgin Vinyl, Heavy-Duty Sleeve, Insert with Lyrics.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-08-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

843563126141

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

POB056CD

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Download code: No

2021-07-23

843563126127

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

POB056LPBOOK

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Extended format: Yes

140 Gram Virgin Vinyl, Heavy-Duty Sleeve, Insert with Lyrics. Limited Copies with Lyric/Photo Book.

2021-09-03

0843563126141

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Mega Bog

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Paradise of Bachelors

The magical Mega Bog returns 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, and Zach Burba (iji) among its cast of vibrant players, Life, and Another bristles with painterly technicolor surface textures while plumbing fathomless depths of feeling.

Cohabiting with Life, and Another’s co-producer, engineer, and percussionist James Krivchenia (Big Thief) in a small cabin near the Rio Grande off of NM State Route 68, Birgy found herself often alone, suspended between their separate touring schedules. In these silent time passages, Birgy experienced a complete loss of self amid the expanse. Frequently thinking about death in the middle of nowhere opened a familiar black hole of troubling projections, and any desire to find freedom or remain positive continued to fold back into self-destructive thought and fear. New, northern landscapes, like the woods and rivers outside of Seattle, Washington, provided inspiration during odd sublets in the area. Dark as everything may actually be, Birgy always manages to stay with trouble and conjure the extraordinary resulting music.

Recorded over several sessions in various studios Life bleeds with instrumental contributions from longtime and new collaborators, including Aaron Otheim, Zach Burba of iji, Will Segerstrom, Matt Bachmann, Andrew Dorset of Lake, James Krivchenia of Big Thief, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, Jade Tcimpidis, Alex Liebman, and co-engineers Geoff Treager and Phil Hartunian. Listeners know by now they can trust Mega Bog to continuously lead them into deeper and wilder, spiritual pop territories. Skittering piano glissandos, haunting psychic background voices, and tequila-inspired improvisations creep and crawl over the dark-night-of-the-soul rock and roll dreamscape, before vanishing to make way for invocations of quiet clarity and living-breathing instrumental passages. 

For fans of Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush, Kevin Ayers, Bridget St John, David Bowie, Cate Le Bon, Aldous Harding, Big Thief and Nico.

Life, and Another

Music GB