Although best described as folk-pop or indie-pop…I’m not sure what the difference is, (who is? who cares?)…you can banish any thoughts of this being a simple, delicate twinkle and shimmer of a song, the sort of fey and fragile thing that such a term usually suggests. “It’d Be Easy” isn’t that, it isn’t that at all.
It might start in such a place, but it quickly wraps itself in lush sonic textures, layer upon layer and heads for the sonic high ground – first hushed harmonies, then more significant choral sounds and more confident beats, growing sonically bigger, richer, wider, deeper before your ears. On it goes, ebbing and flowing through more and less, advance and understatement, and adding gravitas and awe as it spirals upwards.
“It’d Be Easy” muses on all those thoughts that go through your mind as a relationship breaks down, particularly one where there is no blame to be laid, those what ifs and whys, those small details and minutiae that you only notice when they are falling away, the unknown of what comes next, what is there that replaces love when love is gone – friendship, distance, hate…regret?
Across many songs, we have seen Anna Josephine wander understatement and groove, power and restraint, pop and folk and rock and indie with equal deftness. Here, she seems to be walking all those paths, and many more, simultaneously, and walking them with the most perfect sonic and lyrical precision.
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