Irish singer-songwriter Annika Kilkenny’s new project Me In The Mud documents a turbulent time in young adulthood.

Beginning with the knotty feelings of being stuck, stagnant and unable to move forward, new EP Me In The Mud transforms and blooms as Kilkenny moves through periods of self-discovery, zooming out to see a much bigger and brighter picture.

The focus track ‘Tango’ is a highlight for Annika and another step into a slightly different direction. “It was really fun to string together,” she says, “I remember being in my room finding all these James-Bond-type chords and thinking about how I could something quite moody with them. The idiom ‘the ball is in your court’ drove the lyrical concept for this song with how the verses embody a back-and-forth, my-move-your-move motif. Only later did this inspire the title of the track to be dubbed the name of the fiery latin dance.”