A brilliant and terrifying document of internal turmoil and the spectacles of desire, Mega Bog's seventh album is a forest desiccated by wildfires; a glass of wine thrown against the wall; a shadowy catacomb lit by embers. Working in deep, bruising reds and purples, Erin Birgy plumbs the high-drama depths of '80s goth rock, '70s psychedelic, Italo disco and various shades of synthetic pop music from across the decades.
The result, End of Everything, is somehow Birgy's most accessible collection of music yet under the Mega Bog banner, an album that prizes memorable hooks and sleek textures as much as it does the violence of romantic psychodramas and small deaths. Yet still, from all of these shadows emerges a hopeful lightness; a redemptive belief in the human ability to heal and transform.
Co-produced with Big Thief's James Krivchenia and featuring contributions from keyboard wizard Aaron Otheim, bassist Zach Burba and guitarists Meg Duffy, Will Segerstrom and Jackson Macintosh, End of Everything sounds absolutely enormous, moving in sweeping waves of guitar and great throbbing synths that stain Birgy's words with deep, irremovable hues.
A more saturated expansion of the music Birgy was crafting on 2021's wonderful Life, and Another, End of Everything is perhaps her most definitive statement yet — an unflinching commitment to wading into the darkness in search of light.
(Mexican Summer)The result, End of Everything, is somehow Birgy's most accessible collection of music yet under the Mega Bog banner, an album that prizes memorable hooks and sleek textures as much as it does the violence of romantic psychodramas and small deaths. Yet still, from all of these shadows emerges a hopeful lightness; a redemptive belief in the human ability to heal and transform.
Co-produced with Big Thief's James Krivchenia and featuring contributions from keyboard wizard Aaron Otheim, bassist Zach Burba and guitarists Meg Duffy, Will Segerstrom and Jackson Macintosh, End of Everything sounds absolutely enormous, moving in sweeping waves of guitar and great throbbing synths that stain Birgy's words with deep, irremovable hues.
A more saturated expansion of the music Birgy was crafting on 2021's wonderful Life, and Another, End of Everything is perhaps her most definitive statement yet — an unflinching commitment to wading into the darkness in search of light.