Song · Alvvays
“Easy On Your Own” by Alvvays
From the EP Belinda Says / Very Online Guy (2022)
“Easy On Your Own” by Alvvays appears on 8 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the EP Belinda Says / Very Online Guy. Its best result is #41 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #213 alternative song of 2022 and #337 of the '20s.
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Alvvays put "Easy on Your Own?" second on Blue Rev, their 2022 album, and sent it out on Polyvinyl as the record's second single. It's where the Canadian band's dream pop gets its hands dirty: feedback and distortion smeared across glide guitar, shoegaze-style, with Molly Rankin's voice sunk low in the mix so the melody has to fight its way up through the noise.
Rankin and Alec O'Hanley wrote it and produced it with Shawn Everett, who mixed it with O'Hanley. Nobody quite agrees on what it's about. Stereogum heard worry about the future, Paste a relationship too far gone to save, Consequence a breakup, Exclaim the drift of early adulthood. Paste eventually split the difference, hearing a failing romance and the grind of the times bleeding into each other.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 52 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2022 | 91 |
| 2022 | 41 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 147 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2022 | 200 |
| 2022 | 76 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 87 | KALX 90.7 San Francisco Bay Area | KALX 200 Most Played New Songs in 2023 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1012 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 752 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2026 | 671 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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