{"id":638127,"date":"2026-10-22T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638127\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:28:09","slug":"being-dead-sign-to-polyvinyl-plan-to-take-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638127\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Dead Sign to Polyvinyl, Plan to \u201cTake Over the World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/being-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Being Dead<\/a> have signed to Polyvinyl and shared their first songs in two years. \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man or Myth<\/a>\u201d is the Austin rock trio ode\u2019s to Marc Ornstein, a famed \u201cinterpretive freestyle\u201d canoeist, while \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/beingdead.ffm.to\/man-myth-aquarium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aquarium<\/a>\u201d is about \u201cthe taboo nature of falling in love in the workplace, which is especially scandalous if the workplace is an aquarium and your coworker is a dolphin,\u201d according to the band. Both come with music videos directed by Being Dead\u2019s own Falcon Bitch, which you can watch below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t mean to put too much pressure on Polyvinyl,\u201d Being Dead said in press materials, \u201cbut if we\u2019re not inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame within the next two years, we\u2019re throwing in the towel. That said, we have full confidence that together, we will take over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan or Myth \/ Aquarium\u201d follows 2024\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/being-dead-eels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eels<\/a>, Being Dead\u2019s John Congleton-produced sophomore LP. Congleton also returned to work on both new songs.<\/p>\n<p>Read about Eels at No. 38 in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/best-albums-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 50 Best Albums of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Being Dead have signed to Polyvinyl and shared their first songs in two years. \u201cMan or Myth\u201d is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,48613,416],"class_list":["post-638127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-signing","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}