Irish alternative pop artist Ocean Tisdall returns with ‘Making It Easy’, after hooking us completely with ‘Sugar In His Tea’. ‘Making It Easy’ lives up to the expectations and pulls on our heartstrings like no other pop ballad.
He continues speaking on the theme of heartbreak on ‘Making It Easy’, the second chapter of his deeply personal acoustic project. With a soundscape that listens like a warm, comforting hug, and stunning vocals talking us through his reliving of a heartbreak, Tisdall shares a different side to himself despite previous releases sounding similarly. On ‘Making It Easy’ we can almost hear the tears, feel the ripping of the heart and smell the withering roses from a relationship no longer.
Telling this story through soft acoustic guitar lines and his authentic voice, Ocean Tisdall marks himself a voice to watch and listen to over and over again, with the additional warmth of the warmly explosive chorus that drives this release. This quiet heartbreak anthem is reflective, graceful and piercingly honest, Ocean captures the bittersweet strength of letting go without resistance. It is a heartbreak without drama, just truth, sadness, and resilience.
“‘Making It Easy’ was written in my kitchen with my friend and co-writer Nina, right after a short phone call with my mother. We’d been talking about a relationship that had just ended, and I said how easy I’d made it for the other person to leave me. I realised that, without even knowing it, I had made it easy – because I loved them. And when you truly love someone, you put their emotional needs above your own, even if doing so feels like it’s breaking you. In that moment, I wrote a line in my phone: ‘My last act of love was making it easy for you to leave me.'”
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