Kevin Bronson on April 26th, 2022

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Loud Forest is the vehicle for the music made by the husband-wife duo of Bernard and Rachel Chadwick, who’ve released three albums of tunes ranging from affecting folk-pop to kinetic electro-pop, rock and soul.

Their new single, “Easy to Love,” falls in the former category. Dipped in slide guitar and harmonies, it’s a poignant confessional about how hard it is sometimes to make room in one’s own life for others. “I can’t pardon all the ways / I’ve learned how to disengage / I’m protecting myself / kept my heart inside a shelf,” Rachel sings, acknowledging in the chorus: “It’s never been easy for me to love.”

“I’ve spent a lot of years with a hard heart, trying to be strong and power through,” she says. “Through my own journey of motherhood and growing, therapy and working through love, I’ve had to really do the hard work of mending this hard heart, learning to listen and let my heart guide how I think and feel. This is not an easy road, but it’s been the best and most beautiful path to working toward a tender heart.”

The couple’s video for the song is nothing if not tender-hearted, though. The Chadwicks perform the song in their Pasadena home, witnessed by the children, with quick-cuts to typical family outings.

The single is the follow-up to “I Don’t Want to Go Home,” a hard-charging pop-rocker released in February.

Both songs will appear on Loud Forest’s forthcoming fourth album, “Family Tree,” arriving in May.

||| Watch: The video for “Easy to Love”

||| Also: Stream “I Don’t Want to Go Home”