Eugenia Post Meridiem Drop Second Single “around my neck”

A mere three weeks since their latest, electrifying single and video release “willpower” that marked the introduction of their upcoming album like i need tension, the four-piece Italian outfit Eugenia Post Meridiem have returned with their next single. With hints of surf pop threaded throughout, helped with the infectious guitar motif “around my neck” is the second single taken from the highly intriguing album project set for release on the 18th of November.

A kaleidoscopic medley of flavors, breakdowns, switch ups and builds, “around my neck” is yet another demonstration of Eugenia Post Meridiem’s exceptional, tasteful talents and unshakeable chemistry as a band. With just enough variation to keep listeners hooked and tentatively resting on the edge of their seat all whilst remaining seamlessly cohesive and mellifluously fluid. A feat often attempted but rarely mastered with such ease and authenticity.

“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.”