Venom felt in title alone is the sign of an emotionally strong album. I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy for You feels immediately enraged. LIT. MAJOR channels an exceptional fury through this softer style of bedroom indie work. Friend/Lover marked a welcome entry point, a lighter side to what becomes a slap at the relationships not built to last. We find our alleged soulmate until they give up, the static heard on Fit Me Fine is something to worry over. What becomes of a relationship when the slow burn of animosity and boredom overwhelms you? Bitter troubles ahead. Those who find themselves in such a delicate, terrifying spot may find some joy in the openness and intensity of I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy for You.
Do not mistake the easygoing charms of LIT. MAJOR as idleness in the face of desperation. We Are Gone is a masterful display of how love holds on, grips the brain and pushes in all the troubles of learning and experiencing. There is a perseverance to this song which brings in those important times where we learn from or about our partner. I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy for You is filled with the revolt and anger caused by a grim separation. We have all experienced it and those who have not will find the swirling emotions, the apologies for actions carried out by others, somewhat alien. But for those who have had their time in the no man’s land of emotional crisis, the words and way through these LIT. MAJOR songs will feel like familiar fields. Love is war and there are no winners in battle. There are softer moments within. Reasons to hope. Nude Scene holds the faith of love to a high bar and questions the longevity of these connections.
But moving on can be a decades-long process. For the Best feels this fury. Those occasional moments of quiet in the morning, coffee in hand and trying to focus on work when they crop up, out of nowhere. It happens. It does not mean as much as it does to us as it does to LIT. MAJOR, whose mixed feelings are laid bare with this earnest and exceptional album. I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy For You has flutters of Michael Stipe to it. Bitter Pill feels like a rip of their instrumental quality and daring tones cemented by LIT. MAJOR are well-placed, intimate and mark strong, lived-in experiences. Emotionally intense works from the perspective of someone thrown into this with a suddenness not usually heard on music ruminating on the end of relationships.
This is the great strength LIT. MAJOR has with this work. Rage and grief are bedfellows when the feeling is right. I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy For You articulates a blinding flurry of emotional responses in such a crisp, instrumentally welcoming form it is hard to hear any fault with it. Details of a life that could have been on Won’t, and how we pick up the pieces when those mapped-out futures come to a close. It could happen to you. Brace yourself with works like this. Honest works are easy to come by. Impactful ones, efforts which will stand as cultural beacons of grief and rage, are rare. I’m Glad This Has Been So Easy For You is a pillar of the emotionally-charged break-up boom. It is so much more than a breakup album. LIT. MAJOR has crafted a piece of work which begs its listeners to forgive themselves, but not the perpetrator of their emotional turmoil.
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