New Easel Easel: “Lose Melberg”

It’s a rainy holiday Monday, and despite a mountain of work that needs to be done, I just want to be lazy. A situation like that calls for skippy indie-pop, and Tokyo project Easel Easel’s latest song “Lose Melberg” does the job well. It falls in that twee-leaning sea of music that works best when you want something breezy (but also sorta sad, like you realize you are just putting off important things) playing as you sprawl out on the couch. It’s weird to be like “this is good because it doesn’t demand your attention,” but sometimes that’s what you need on a drizzly weekday. Listen above.

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