Yearlong Song Challenge, Day 113: Nate

Prompt: "A song with every vowel in its title at least once"

Selected by Nate

"Easily Undone"

Macseal

Permanent Repeat, 2024

This particular slice of power-pop gets a little too close to late-'90s slop ("Steal My Sunshine"-core, if you will), a little too close to Cartel ("Honestly" kicks the absolute minimum amount of ass to still be credited with kicking ass, shout out to writing your second album in that bubble or whatever). Still, this Macseal record is pretty sweet, especially when it ramps up and approaches something in the same neighborhood as Liquid Mike ("Your Door" is the one I would recommend to people outside the Song Challenge). Power-pop remains the genre to beat in 2024. This record comes to us from the same label that brought us motherfucking Gami Gang, so you know it's legit. If you're a person bumping up against the tyranny of marketing and algorithmic recommendation (or, in other words, a fucking weird loser like yours truly), you could do a lot worse than just pick your favorite indie record label and listen to everything new on the catalog. There's so much music out there, y'all. Too much, frankly, probably. This is a bad blog post, but fuck it, I'm on the beach by the time you're reading this, and I'm writing this procrastinating / taking a break from some tedious work. Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be corporate communicators. Let them grow up to be Macseal, at least.