Bristol artist Pem admits something most people spend their lives trying to hide: she’s porous.
“(easily) moved”, the fourth track from her new EP other ways of landing, doesn’t dress up emotional permeability as strength or self-awareness.
It just names it plainly, almost apologetically, and that honesty feels more confronting than any stadium-sized confessional.
“I’m easily moved / I’m easily out of here / I’m so easy to move / Right out the atmosphere,” she sings, her voice quivering not from weakness but from holding too much at once.
That tremolo technique she’s known for works like a tuning fork here, turning confession into contagion. You feel it in your chest before you process the words.
What’s changed since her grief-stricken 2024 EP Cloud Work isn’t that Pem has moved past loss. It’s that she’s stopped white-knuckling through it.
That earlier work saw her desperately searching for something to grip onto. Here, she’s floating, and the song’s warm soundscapes don’t try to ground her. They just hold space for the drift.
Producer Ali Chant surrounds her vocals with textures that feel like they’re breathing with her, atmospheric without overwhelming.
The arrangement knows when to pull back, when to let her voice carry the weight alone.
There’s something almost cruel about how beautiful it sounds, given what she’s singing about, being so affected by the world that staying rooted feels impossible.
The paradox of “(easily) moved” is that a song about instability roots you completely. Pem’s voice, so distinct and quivering, becomes the only fixed point.
She’s not performing vulnerability; she’s demonstrating what happens when you stop performing anything at all. That might be why it’s so hard to shake.
When she sings about being moved “right out the atmosphere,” you believe her.
But you also stay exactly where you are, held by a voice that refuses to pretend it knows how to land.
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