Sydney-via-Moruya queer alt-pop artist Yen Strange has releases her new single and self-directed video, “Easy Way Out”.
Written by Yen Strange and produced by Alice Ivy, it finds the artist exorcizing the demon of a toxic relationship through her vulnerable lyrics and hooky melodies. Self-soothing but in a laid back Aussie way, she carols over fuzzy Ableton samples in her latest summer anthem.
Yen Strange reveals “‘Easy Way Out’ is about a time I told someone I wanted to be with them and they asked me to just wait. Almost exactly a year on it became clear to me that everything he said to me was more of an act to try and distract himself from the reality of his own misery. I was an easy fix to his depression, a temporary drug that he used and abused until I just wasn’t cheap enough anymore. It was a pretty sad time and I remember sitting on my bed making this song on my laptop and thinking all I wanted to do was see him, I didn’t care that he perceived me in this way I thought things would get better if I tried harder.”
The video for “Easy Way Out” was directed by Yen Strange and filmed by Jasper Burrows Millican. Watch it below or listen to the song on streaming platforms.
“Easy Way Out” is released through Liberation Records. You can find Yen Strange on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
