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The Beautifully World Weary Title Track to Easy Jane’s New Album Play is Like a Conflicted Farewell to a Relationship Gone Awry

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The title track to Easy Jane’s second album 2021’s Play has a complexity of emotional impact that might not be obvious from its gorgeously lush layers of sound and expansive dynamic. The mood is melancholic and pitched in tones that suggest resignation to the reality of one’s association with another and the need to let go. In an album that delves into the dark side of relationships and the ways in which we awaken to our involvement in them especially when it would behoove us to dissolve them or exit the situation as best we can. In “Play” the guitar traces an outward spiral of an atmospheric riff in the verses that is both bracing and sounds like the closing chapter of something with no sequel. The track is reminiscent of what Crime & the City Solution got up to circa Paradise Discotheque (1990) with its poetic lyrics and cinematic sound. Listen to “Play” on YouTube, check out the rest of Play on Bandcamp and connect with Easy Jane at the links provided below.

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The Gritty and Fiery “Manic Mood” Finds Easy Jane Exemplifying the Bombastic and Lurid End of Darkwave

 

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Easy Jane “Manic Mood” cover (cropped)

The guitar on Easy Jane’s “Manic Mood” doesn’t carry a melody so much as provide textures and emotional atmospheres the way Daniel Ash has done with various projects. On this song it sears through the track while the bass and drums keep the song moving forward. The sense of menace and and disorientation is only enhanced by the two vocalists whose singing goes from fairly dry to slightly echoing and swirly. Where many other bands in the vein of post-punk and darkwave eschew technical prowess in their instruments, Easy Jane embraces the bombastic, searing guitar solo and song breakdown here as “Manic Mood” goes to outro in a manner reflecting the title of the song. Though the tone is lurid and the singers sound like they’re coming to us from some kind of afterlife, there is nothing tentative to the pacing lending even the most melancholic moments some grit and intensity. Listen to “Manic Mood” on Spotify.