Néomí’s “Sit Back Baby” opens on chiming guitar and a voice that sits warm, steady, and vulnerable.
The parts move together until the song blooms: soft lift in the low end, harmonies brightening the edges, and a title line that lands like a breath out.
It’s out now on her official channels, leading into the EP Another Year Will Pass (due October 31 via Nettwerk).
The song wrestles with honesty and pretence. “It can be hard to be honest / Sometimes you just wanna play it cool,” she sings, before admitting it would be easier to “pretend it’s all good.”
The verses touch on forgiveness, on hiding, on running from things you’ve said and done.
There’s a specific memory tucked in: “Remember that we just sat on that hospital bed / And you cried, and you asked / And I laughed instead.” Then the chorus returns, over and over: “Sit back baby, let it go.”
Néomí’s been clear about what she’s doing here. “A song where I am trying to convince myself it is going to be fine,” she says. “I am telling everyone else but especially my loved ones it is going to be fine. Of course, I know nothing is fine, and it will never be fine but that is what is making it all fine.”
The middle eight cuts to the heart of it: “What means love when, you can’t put your heart on the line?”
That’s the song’s real question. “If you are too afraid to live, then why the hell would you be alive?” she asks.
It’s a call for herself and encouragement to others: “try to live, try to move on and whatever it takes, if things get heavy or difficult just sit back and let it go.”
On the ear, the tonal choices are smooth and purposeful. The arrangement stays light on its feet so the message carries: verse in tight focus, pre-chorus loosening the grip, then that hook opens like a window.
It’s euphoric in feel, not in volume. The kind of song that grounds you in the moment even as it lifts.
If you want to catch it live, she’s on UK dates around the single and plays The Old Church, London (Oct 1) among others.
Bottom line: warm, introspective, and quietly bracing. Néomí’s “Sit Back Baby” admits that nothing is fine and still invites you to try. It’s a soft centre with a needed message, delivered by an artist leaning into honesty and glow at once.
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