Jake Stopar Releases “It’s So Easy (to fall in love)”.

Written by: Caitlin Troutman

I’m not sure if it’s just the increased hours of sunshine, but Jake Stopar’s new single strikes me as a good way to usher in the spring season and its accompanying restlessness. It makes me want to sit in the passenger seat of my friend’s car and leave my coat at home out of impatience for nice weather. 

On “It’s So Easy (to fall in love),” Stopar has created a good barbeque tune. Warm and simple, nod-along sunshine music. The track features a swinging tempo with easygoing rockabilly chord progressions. Stopar’s hoarse, whispery vocals can feel perfunctory, as if they’re an afterthought to the featured guitar work but it does have the effect of adding some texture to the song and distinguishing his sound from similar acts. The hook, ‘it’s so easy to fall in love,’ is rather impersonal. Perhaps because the John Fogerty cover with a similar title lives in the recesses of my brain after years of dad rock radio, the chorus on Stopar’s song passes through my mind without stopping, is forgotten as soon as I stop listening. But when I am listening, I can picture myself swimming or in a friend’s backyard, listening to the song on a sunny afternoon.

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