Last year, the Scandinavian experimental pop duo Smerz released Big city life, one of our favorite albums of 2025. A few months ago, they dropped Big city life EDITS, a remix compilation that featured appearances from people like Clairo, Erika de Casier, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, Elias Rønnenfelt, Fousheé, and MIKE. Right now Smerz are getting ready for a North American tour, and they'll also open some of Robyn's dates this summer. They're the toast of the town! So this seems like a good time to announce a new EP.
Next month, Smerz will release a new six-song record called Easy. There's a song called "Easy" on Big city life, but it doesn't appear on the Easy EP, so this must be one of those PJ Harvey Dry situations. In a press release they say that they "went off on a tangent" while recording "Easy" at the end of the Big city life sessions, and that tangent led to this EP: "Many of Big city life’s songs are rooted in specific stories, this Easy EP presented itself in a more open-ended process — almost like a daily journal. It began as a snapshot of a moment, one that was about to become our spring last year, and was finished moving into spring of 2026."
Today, they've shared "Spring summer," a short and downcast song with hazy, dragging synthpop production. Below, check out that song and the Easy tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Somewhere"
02 "Spring summer"
03 "Spring summer 3 beat"
04 "lts here"
06 "Somewhere 2"
06 "The room you described"
The Easy EP is out 5/15 on Escho.
