Easy on Your Own?
The second single from Blue Rev, which opens with a line about dropping out of college.
Alvvays, from Blue Rev (2022)
- Written by
- Molly Rankin, Alec O'Hanley
- Released
- 10 August 2022
- Length
- 2:54
- Album
- Blue Rev
The second single appeared on 10 August 2022. Pitchfork's Larson noted that it opens on the line "I dropped out," followed by a lyric about college education being a dull knife for those who do not believe in the lettered life, and described the song as triumphant. He placed it among the themes of escaping and returning, stasis and change.
The Ringer's Ian Cohen heard it as something of a sequel to Archie, Marry Me, with a narrator who has second thoughts about the demands of adulthood and retreats into solitude. A music video came out in 2022.
More songs by Alvvays
Archie, Marry Me, Dreams Tonite, Pharmacist, Belinda Says
Sources
- Alvvays: Blue Rev Album Review, Pitchfork (2022-10-07)
- The Beautiful Blue Twisted Fantasies of Alvvays, The Ringer (2022-10-06)