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Opening their debut EP “Fragments//1.26” with “Eurydice,” Carry Me transforms Greek tragedy into shoegaze reverie, finding fresh resonance in mythology’s most famous backwards glance. Rather than simply retelling Orpheus’s descent, the band uses waves of guitar texture to explore the liminal spaces of the myth – those moments between certainty and doubt, presence and absence.

The track’s production perfectly captures this in-between state, with vocals that float through the mix like shadows in the underworld. When the lyrics ask “In-between this space when the sound fades, does love remain?” the question emerges through layers of reverb that make the words themselves feel like echoes from Hades’ realm.

The band’s restraint proves particularly effective – instead of building to expected shoegaze crescendos, they maintain a hypnotic middle distance that mirrors Orpheus’s journey. The recurring line “there ain’t no one else” takes on different shades with each repetition, shifting from devotion to desperation as the arrangement subtly evolves around it.

Most striking is how Carry Me captures the essence of the myth’s central moment without directly depicting it. That fatal backward look becomes a meditation on doubt itself, with the phrase “Turning back won’t end well for me” delivered not as narrative but as lived experience, wrapped in guitar tones that blur the line between warning and memory.

“Eurydice” suggests Carry Me understands that some stories resonate across millennia not because they need updating, but because they already contain every shade of human error and longing. By letting the myth drift through their shoegaze haze, they reveal how ancient heartbreak still echoes in modern noise.