Premiere: Ekkoes – ‘Last Breath’

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Largely speaking, there isn’t a downside to making art.

Seriously, everyone should try it. It’s an open, engaging and inspiring experience, one that seems to continually result in new outcomes.

London trio Ekkoes make synth pop, but with an artful edge. New single ‘Last Breath’ makes this explicit, taking the tale of Veronica Micle as its inspiration.

The doomed Romanian poet struggled to be beside her lover, fellow poet Mihai Eminescu. Mihai committed suicide in 1883, while Veronica retired to a remote monastery, where she tragically took her own life a mere three months later.

Iconic figures in Romanian literature, their lives and loves now serve as the inspiration for ‘Last Breath’. A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fable, the cool, crisp mechanised production only serves to underline the song’s nascent romanticism.

Out on October 27th via Wall Of Sound, you can check it out first on Clash.

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