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Marshall is hassled by police from the off on Easy Easy, but what’s really getting him down is the lack of an escape route.

There’s no future in England’s dreaming. Things get so rough he even reaches for a Churchill quotation:

If you’re going through hell. Just keep going”.

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What did King Krule say about "Easy Easy"?
Genius Answer

During an interview on an Italian radio show, Archy said:

I wrote that song when I was really young. That was something I wrote when I was like 14. The only reason I put it on the album was because I was in Poland, in Katowice and we’re playing a show in a church, and it was really weird. […] I used to play it [“Easy Easy”] all the time and I hadn’t play it since I was about 15, by this point I think I was 18. So I went out and I played it, and I left the stage. It went well, whatever, and I just felt I needed to put it in the album because it was such a life saver at that point of time.


During an interview with Gilles Peterson, Archy said:

I wrote it when I was 14-15. I guess a lot of pain in it is about my mother, and then the rest of it it’s sort about day-to-day life, walking down the street and getting by. I mainly wrote it so there would be an introduction to my set back in the day. I play a lot on my own back in the day, and so it was a really powerful intro because it was just straight on the E string and then just ripping into the mic.

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Release Date
August 24, 2013
Easy Easy Covers
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