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May 15, 2014Easy Pain reminds you how horrible the world can be, as well as the catharsis you can achieve if you'd only just immerse yourself in the maelstrom. [Jun 2014, p.111]
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May 15, 2014While Young Widows might not be as loud as they used to be, it's possible that the band's sound is as heavy, or heavier, than it has ever been, making Easy Pain the band's moodiest and most engaging work to date.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Their pain is very much our gain. [Summer 2014, p.91]
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Aug 28, 2014With Easy Pain, the trio go full fang on this fourth LP, harkening back to the most extreme aspects of Louisville loudness.
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Jun 23, 2014It’s clearly the best Young Widows record.
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Kerrang!Jun 12, 2014The doom and the dirge are relentless but never get boring. [10 May 2014, p.54]
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May 28, 2014Easy Pain is absolutely colossal.
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May 19, 2014Easy Pain effectively seizes the tooth-gritting intensity of 2008's Old Wounds and delivers it through the unsettling ambience of 2011's In and Out of Youth and Lightness.
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May 15, 2014At last, Young Widows sound less like a string of hyphenates and histories and more like their own demented, delightful selves.
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May 28, 2014It’s an album focused on a very limited range of moods, and inhabits that tone very well, but ultimately does little to justify sticking around.
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May 15, 2014Easy Pain proves hard to like; and with little more than aimless aggression to cling onto for eight songs, you realise it’s all muscle.
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