Exactly 3 weeks ago today, the Italian, 4-piece indie band Eugenia Post Meridiem graced our pages with their first 2022 single and video “willpower”. We had the privilege of premiering this piece, the first peek into their new, upcoming album like i need tension. Leaving us just enough room to catch our breath they have now revealed the second instalment, in the form of enigmatic new single “around my neck”.
Cascading in colours, full to the brim with flavour and featuring multiple switch ups throughout the 4 minute track, EPM truly take listeners on a whirlwind of a journey with something new to see and soak up around each and every corner. Cohesively glued together by the quartets incredible, meticulous talent and undeniable chemistry, its clear to see that EPM are just getting warmed up and we better strap in, sit back and enjoy the ride.
“This song was born from a riff written by Giovanni during the lockdown and reworked afterwards. The original composition had a crazy chord progression that was simplified during the arrangement process ending up in a loop of four chords played over an afrobeat groove which breaks when the chorus hits, changing the hypnotic mood of the verse, the bass drops and the mood becomes darker and colder, than a monotone voice leads once again to the verse and in the end leads to a male choir improvisation, a dreamy vocal prayer that blends gradually in a dawn. Those musical ideas are conceptualised in the lyrics as a mantra repeating itself almost like a prayer about what we probably mean when we say ‘human freedom’. We are trying to summon an image of someone facing two giants: life and death; being frozen by deep fear, but then at a time having this feeling of being something way more noble and greater, an ‘existence’ that walks over them.”
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