Vorsen’s Easier is the sort of feeling that starts softly, a gentle nagging that eventually becomes all you can think about. Vorsen’s delicate vocal manoeuvering its way sympathetically around layered guitar melodies and ambience, before a chorus kicks the song up a notch, propulsive drums and pulsing bass injecting an energy into the performance.
Yet_Easier_ doesn’t let up there. It builds and builds, synths and distortion joining the instrumentation. And then it drops out for a bar where, for just a moment, it feels as if Vorsen has lost his confidence… Only to slam his foot back onto the gas again, the desire for something a little less painful seemingly manifested into song, through sheer will alone.
Vorsen is the musical project of London-based, British/Australian product Oliver Halvorsen. Having moved to Western Australia when he was young, Halverson got into music-making in his teenage years, before being invited to study at the Western Academy of Performing Arts. Having initially got experience working in studios with some of Perth’s best known producers, Oliver returned to his town of birth, London, and joined the act Night Flight. From there, Halverson started producing solo material, getting picked up on Triple J for his debut single, Say All The Right Things.
Easier is talent from Vorsen’s debut EP, Real Life, which Oliver started working on in 2020 following the dissolution of a significant relationship. Check it out below.