As the first single from a new album planned for early next year, “Being Good Is Supposed To Be Easy,” is See Night giving us a first taste and perhaps testing the sonic waters ahead of Just Another Life dropping in February.
Written in response to the sudden loss of her father, Linda Sao has poured all manner of mood and emotion, deep thoughts and heartache, into the song and lyrically, she explores the relationship with him, musing on feelings of guilt and the often fathomless void of the generational divide as she increasingly took on the role of caretaker as well as daughter. These are highly personal thoughts, of course, but universally relatable ones to, especially as she asks herself and us, the listener, about “the timeless debt you can’t repay.”
Linda sets this thought-provoking, soul-searching sentiment to a sound that ebbs and flows between shoegazing walls of noise, alt-rock muscle, and more delicate and considered indie riffs, like a modern take on the gnarlier end of the college rock sound of days gone by. She creates a brilliant dynamic by powering on the muscle and then balancing that with more eloquent sonic melodies, by interlacing understated indie grace into alt-rock’s gritty grandeur.
Written in one day, “Being Good Is Supposed To Be Easy,” is drawn from pure emotion rather than planned and plotted preperation, as most songs are. It comes from an honest and heartfelt place. A place we have or will all find ourselves at some point.
Powerful, poignant, and near-perfect!
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