Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done (2025)
Easier Said Than Done gestures toward the idea of an album as an emotional continuum, but it never fully commits to the structural discipline required to make that world inescapable. Pool Kids clearly aim for cohesion — recurring moods, consistent tonal anxiety, and a sense of inward reflection — yet the record often settles into familiarity rather than transformation.
The songs connect thematically more than structurally. While there is continuity of feeling, the accumulation remains shallow: tension is present, but rarely escalated; density exists, but without a decisive arc. Moments of melodic clarity and pop-leaning immediacy interrupt rather than deepen the immersive flow, giving the album a stop-start quality that weakens its long-form pull.
At its best, the record documents a sincere emotional state with care and restraint. At its weakest, it feels content to circle that state instead of pushing through it. Easier Said Than Done functions as a coherent emotional document, but not yet as a fully necessary world — inhabitable in parts, but too comfortable to demand endurance.
Genre: Emo Pop
Country: US
Final Verdict: 65% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 272th / 900
Highlight: Sorry Not Sorry
Made me think of:
Foxing
Oso Oso
The Hotelier
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