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Last year, the Scandinavian experimental pop duo Smerz released Big city life<\/a><\/em>, one of our favorite albums of 2025<\/a>. A few months ago, they dropped Big city life EDITS<\/a><\/em>, a remix compilation that featured appearances from people like Clairo, Erika de Casier, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt, Foushe\u00e9, 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.<\/p>\n Next month, Smerz will release a new six-song record called Easy<\/em>. There’s a song called “Easy” on Big city life<\/em>, but it doesn’t appear on the Easy<\/em> EP, so this must be one of those PJ Harvey Dry<\/em> 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<\/em> sessions, and that tangent led to this EP: “Many of Big city life<\/em>\u2019s songs are rooted in specific stories, this Easy<\/em> EP presented itself in a more open-ended process \u2014 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.”<\/p>\n Today, they’ve shared “Spring summer,” a short and downcast song with hazy, dragging synthpop production. Below, check out that song and the Easy<\/em> tracklist.<\/p>\n