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After five years of self-releasing tapes and CDs (some of which are on Bandcamp for free), Mega Bog’s Seattle-based bandleader/songwriter Erin Birgy releases her triumphant statement of retro-futurist lounge weirdness.
Gone Banana floats between Damien Jurado’s recent spacerock opus, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, and Athens, GA’s The New Sound of Numbers, though without the post-punk Slits attack. Traces of Hawkwind and the Bowie/Eno collaborations waft into the songs, creating an eerie, distant atmosphere, the sound of being confined to life in a bubble while living on an alien moon. Throughout, Birgy’s voice remains a soft, sultry mix of Keren Ann and Françoise Hardy, a beautiful stranger who completely alters your life before moving on the to next town. Field recordings add to the airy quality of the tracks, bringing a fog onto the foreign horizon. It’s the music you hear when sitting in a desert cantina surrounded by lost, forgotten ex-patriots on an extra-terrestrial planet.
If Barbarella had been a singer instead of an interstellar adventurer, she would have been Mega Bog. Delve into Gone Banana and discover a world far beyond our scope of existence.
