neu, kaputt & popanz pres.
MEGA BOG (Los Angeles US, Mexican Summer)
w. TAZ CHERNILL
Mittwoch, 22. November 2023
Bumann & SOHN, Köln
Einlass 19:00, Beginn 20:00

Tickets: https://popanz.ticket.io/ukl1ycdz/
pres. by Musikexpress & ByteFM

"As tense and exploratory as a sci-fi epic, the Los Angeles musician’s new album meanders through eerie, desolate prog rock and synth-pop." - Pitchfork

End of Everything is the intrepid seventh album from Mega Bog, a nightmarish experimental pop ensemble led by Erin Elizabeth Birgy. In 2020, Birgy was surrounded by seemingly endless turmoil: mass death, a burning planet, and a personal reckoning when past traumas met fresh ones. Living in Los Angeles, against the backdrop of brilliantly horrifying forest fires, she questioned what perspective to use moving forward in such dumbfounded awe. Deciding to seize something tangible, she produced a record that spoke of surrender, of mourning, and 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, metal guitar squeals, Italo disco bass lines, rhapsodic 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.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.