(Paradise of Bachelors)Meaning eludes the listener in Erin Birgy’s sixth album, an oblique, jazzy folk-pop offering that, with time, reveals itself
From the grammatical quirks of the title onwards, every facet of Life, and Another seems designed to bewilder. The sixth album from Nevada’s Erin Birgy – whose prehistoric-sounding moniker isn’t exactly an exercise in lucidity either – tells stories in an oblique, faintly mystical way: lyrics teem with odd images (“try to see people in the spiders chasing you”) and random characters (Debbie Dubai) appear without explanation; suggestions of sentiment ripple through, and snippets of comprehensible thought surface sporadically.