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The WireDec 20, 2021One of 2021’s most impressive and poignant examples of progressive rock? Damn the torpedoes, let’s go with that. [Nov 2021, p.62]
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Aug 10, 2021For longstanding Mega Bog fans, Life, and Another immediately stands out as one of Birgy’s finest records from start to finish. There’s a maturation to the stylistic choices and general trajectory of the instrumentation.
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Jul 26, 2021It is a record that is whimsical and sensual; weird and romantic.
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Jul 22, 2021At 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.
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MojoJul 22, 2021Audaciously, it all coheres. The vision is precise and the execution meticulous. The album's 14 songs are tightly arranged and energetically delivered. [Sep 2021, p.81]
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UncutJul 22, 2021Wonderfully eclectic and strangely uplifting. [Aug 2021, p.31]
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Jul 22, 2021It's a new and fantastic chapter in an ongoing body of uncontainable work, one where Birgy has never hesitated to dive into her own psyche and wrestle what she finds there back up to the surface for all to see.
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Jul 28, 2021Life, and Another expands her palette tenfold with different hues and tones that would typically go unnoticed on an experimental record. The result is her most engaging work yet.
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Aug 2, 2021The record’s second half is a different sort of foggy, due to a baffling bit of sequencing where the miniature songs “Beagle in the Cloud” and “Adorable” alternate with the instrumental interludes “Darmok” and “Bull of Heaven.” Taken all together, the passage drags, and it’s hard not to think these songs would be better served as buffers between some of the longer tracks on the album. However, the pirouetting arpeggios that introduce “Obsidian Lizard” immediately correct course.