Eugenia Post Meridiem’s debut album is just around the corner. After sharing a couple of singles this year (including the stunning, Highclouds-premiered “Blue Noon“, which ended up in our mid-year list Best Tracks of 2019 [so far]), the Italian band have been teasing a potential release of their rookie effort In Her Bones this very month through their social media. We are premiering one of the singles off the album, and it might be their best one yet. Named after the beautiful Lisbonese parish of Anjos, this new Eugenia Post Meridiem song sees them reach an emotional peak that is unprecedented in their short history. Talking about career peak, the band have just been selected to play Eurosonic 2020 and we’re pretty sure that it’s only the beginning.

Going past the five-minute mark, “Anjos” is reminiscent of increasingly gripping rock tunes of recent times like Lucy Dacus’s “Night Shift” or Big Thief’s “Mythological Beauty”, songs whose more reserved and minimal verses are completely turned around once the chorus hits. You can tell “Anjos” is going somewhere from the way the melody builds up from the very beginning, and from how a narrative on self-discovery is being constructed alongside the minimal/loaded dynamics that drive the music. What you can’t tell that easily is that that somewhere is an absolute beast of a chorus, a perfect culmination of the groundwork laid in the verses. And it doesn’t stop there. Right after the refrain come a tempo and key changes that transform “Anjos” into a wordless, upbeat song for about fifteen seconds and then back into its natural state. As you may have guessed by now, this is a weird one. It’s also an excellent one, and it makes us even more excited for Eugenia Post Meridiem’s debut album, out in a few hours only.

Eugenia Post Meridiem strike gold in their first single “Low Tide”. A four-piece band that’s been based all around Western Europe throughout its short existence, Eugenia Post Meridiem are one of 2019’s most promising indie rock acts. Led by Eugenia’s strong vocal presence and her intimate lyricism, this young Italian group rides the recent wave of visceral singer-songwriters like Tomberlin or the Boygenius gang. However, Eugenia’s vocals and her band’s clean accompaniments make her more of an early Sharon van Etten or Torres, which is obviously a very good thing.

After spending most of last summer recording in Berlin, the band is now set to release their debut album In Her Bones. They’re premiering the album with the gorgeous lead single “Low Tide”, a guitar-based pop song that showcases Eugenia’s touching vocals to great effect. A poignant and personal commentary on the world surrounding her, “Low Tide” is as good of an introduction letter as you can ask for. Starry-eyed and gracious, Eugenia delivers her vocals as if she were in front of a tiny audience in an intimate venue: “Are you gonna be one of them?” she sings just before hitting those beautiful notes in a chorus perfectly adorned by meticulously played guitar licks and bass fills. Though lethargic in tempo and execution, “Low Tide” is no slow-burner – it starts off impressively and remains that way throughout its entire length. As far as debut singles go, it’s hard to get better than this.