Easily

'Easily' sits among the most dazzlingly beautiful moments on Art Angels, a track that trades the album's usual ferocity for something more measured and introspective. Built on a foundation of synth-pop restraint, the song charts the aftermath of a relationship that has cooled into indifference. Grimes sings of being forgotten, then suddenly remembered years later, the repetition of the title word becoming both a confession and a rebuke, a way of saying how readily affection can dissolve. The production here is spare enough to let the vocal sit at the centre, her delivery moving between sweetness and a kind of weary defiance. There is no bombast, no distortion, just the architecture of a pop song that knows exactly what it wants to say and says it plainly. It is a moment of clarity on an album otherwise devoted to controlled chaos.