End of Everything is the intrepid 7th album from Mega Bog, a nightmarish experimental pop ensemble led by the cackling luminary, Erin Elizabeth Birgy. In 2020, Birgy was surrounded by seemingly endless turmoil: mass death, a burning planet and a personal reckoning with past trauma. Living in Los Angeles, against the backdrop of California’s horrifying forest fires, she questioned what to do in the face of such profound turmoil. Deciding to seize something tangible, she produced a record that spoke of surrender, of mourning, and of support in the face of tumultuous self reflection. Writing on piano and synthesizer, instead of the familiar guitar, Birgy explored a spectrum of new sounds to illuminate a state of volatility and flux that was both universal and personal. Speaking of this transition, she describes the need ‘to feel… instantly. I didn’t want to dig into secret codes. I no longer wanted to hide behind difficult music. I was curious to give others the same with the music I create; to make music someone could use to explore drama, playfulness, and dancing, to shake the trauma loose’. Heavy grooves, guitar squeals, fantasia synth layers, and huge choruses stomp around the delightfully sanguine pop drama. Where previous records stretched out into the abstract and ethereal, End of Everything delivers a hit straight to collective awareness and healing.