‘Who needs a love?’, Evripidis asks in his comeback single. After the compilation ‘Alegre Persona Sad’, Evripidis and his Tragedies brings us a charming eighties synth-pop song. Evripidis himself explains on his Bandcamp that “the song was born as a bedroom pop exercise, based on a riff that I was playing obsessively on an asthmatic keyboard that belonged to my partner’s mother.”
The result is an electronic ballad filled with bittersweet irony, which sounds like a melancholic summer, a vacation that ends and a walk on the beach at dawn through mist, while you obsessively ask yourself: who needs love? Who needs that toothache, when the city is full of bars, of strangers to meet? Evripides recites all the offers and temptations around him to avoid love. A love that, deep down, is what he longs for most. Because… who needs love? Well all of them.
Marc Ribera (Doble Pletina) contributes the guitar and the video of the song, a small wonder. It is handmade, colored and animated by hand. A beautiful filigree in which Evripidis alternates with statues from ancient Greece. An iconography that refers to Hellenic mythology that permeates the lyrics: Ulysses, sirens… And multiplies the spell of the song.
