How Do You Make It Look So Easy? (Deluxe) Arctic Lake

• 1 How Do You Make It Look So Easy 02:51
• 2 Fireflies (Live from London) 02:33
• 3 Fool (Live from London) 03:12
• 4 Hold Me (Live from London) 03:34
• 5 Fireflies 02:26
• 6 Silver Pendant 02:36
• 7 Interlude 01:26
• 8 Fool 02:45
• 9 Are You Okay? 03:24
• 10 My Weakness 03:03
• 11 Hold Me 04:12
• Total Runtime 32:02

Info for How Do You Make It Look So Easy? (Deluxe)

"The selection is made up of songs from very different times in our lives, over the span of many years. The first song ‘Fireflies,’ for example, was written seven years ago so it’s a real journey through our adulthood and everything that comes with it,” explain Arctic Lake’s Emma Foster and Paul Holliman.

“We wanted How Do You Make It Look So Easy? to be full of highs and lows so although sonically it lives in the same world, it has moments you can dance to and moments you hopefully cry to because that’s what life is like. Some days are hard and some days are magical and then there is everything in-between,” say Foster and Holliman. “It’s interlaced with a lot of personal stories from us but also from our friends and family.

Some songs even have many accounts woven in together like ‘Fool,’ which talks about loving someone who is bad for you, or ‘Hold Me,’ which talks directly about both our breakups even though they were very different. A lot of these feelings and situations are universal and our desire has always been to move people, to write music that connects us, so we hope this patchwork EP does that. Or maybe everyone else is really making life look too easy and we want to know what the secret is? Either way, have a listen and let us know if you find out.”

Wonderland Magazine praised “Are You Okay?” as “soul-drenched, evoking and immersive” and Popdust observed, “When it comes to making a heartfelt, soulful track, Arctic Lake are somewhat geniuses.” Rollacoaster said, “Lamenting a universally held habit of feeling unable to let go of love even when it’s hurting us, ‘Fool’ is not only a simmering soundscape but also a cautionary tale that binds together those who feel lost, allowing space to feel those hard-to-face feelings.” The Honey Pop said, “‘Silver Pendant’ is an ethereal alt-pop anthem about infatuation…a twinkling track with delightful lyrics paired with beautifully gorgeous vocals.”

While they come from largely different backgrounds – Emma a rebellious kid from Lincolnshire, who grew up being fed everything from Depeche Mode to Ella Fitzgerald to Queen by her music obsessive father; Paul a “middle class and sheltered” metal fan from the suburbs of London who was “terrified of everything, including Emma” – their seemingly opposing characters fit together in a special way. The pair were sitting in a university library, working on their dissertations, when they learned that “Limits,”

Arctic Lake

Arctic Lake
Steadily cementing their niche of emotive, intimate, expansive yet earwormy alternative pop, vocalist Emma Foster and producer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Holliman have spent their near-decade together as Arctic Lake working their way to themselves. Having achieved unexpected success with 2015 debut single ‘Limits’ – gaining plays on Radio One and label interest from their earliest moves – they instead decided to take a step back, cultivate their sound and build things slowly from the ground up.

Over a series of self-released EPs – 2017’s ‘Closer’, 2019’s ‘What You May Find’ and the following year’s ‘See Inside’ – Arctic Lake learnt what they wanted beyond a lucky first move: to create work that felt boundaryless but still cohesive, tied together by an emphasis on lyrical depth and a musical stitching together of the organic and synthetic. Along the way they’ve been championed by Elton John, handpicked for Reading and Leeds festival and collaborated on a series of highly successful tracks with American producer and DJ Lane 8 (2020’s ‘Road’ sits at more than 43 million Spotify plays). In 2022, meanwhile, they signed to Universal Music offshoot Astralwerks, kicking off the partnership with the release of their ‘side by side we lie awake’ EP.

Next comes ‘How Do You Make It Look So Easy?’ – a collection of tracks that distil everything they’ve learnt into one empathetic, sonically exploratory whole. It’s the final primer before Arctic Lake launch into their long-sought-after debut album proper and, says Foster, things finally all feel in their right place. “I’m so glad it’s happened this way because we wouldn’t be writing the album we’re writing now if this had all happened five, six years ago. We wouldn’t know ourselves and what we want to talk about as much; I’m so happy.”




Arctic Lake
Steadily cementing their niche of emotive, intimate, expansive yet earwormy alternative pop, vocalist Emma Foster and producer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Holliman have spent their near-decade together as Arctic Lake working their way to themselves. Having achieved unexpected success with 2015 debut single ‘Limits’ – gaining plays on Radio One and label interest from their earliest moves – they instead decided to take a step back, cultivate their sound and build things slowly from the ground up.

Over a series of self-released EPs – 2017’s ‘Closer’, 2019’s ‘What You May Find’ and the following year’s ‘See Inside’ – Arctic Lake learnt what they wanted beyond a lucky first move: to create work that felt boundaryless but still cohesive, tied together by an emphasis on lyrical depth and a musical stitching together of the organic and synthetic. Along the way they’ve been championed by Elton John, handpicked for Reading and Leeds festival and collaborated on a series of highly successful tracks with American producer and DJ Lane 8 (2020’s ‘Road’ sits at more than 43 million Spotify plays). In 2022, meanwhile, they signed to Universal Music offshoot Astralwerks, kicking off the partnership with the release of their ‘side by side we lie awake’ EP.

Next comes ‘How Do You Make It Look So Easy?’ – a collection of tracks that distil everything they’ve learnt into one empathetic, sonically exploratory whole. It’s the final primer before Arctic Lake launch into their long-sought-after debut album proper and, says Foster, things finally all feel in their right place. “I’m so glad it’s happened this way because we wouldn’t be writing the album we’re writing now if this had all happened five, six years ago. We wouldn’t know ourselves and what we want to talk about as much; I’m so happy.”

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