“Have I contemplated suicide” arrives in the second verse like a speed bump nobody warned you about, dropped between lines about riding along and being told everything’s going to be fine. It doesn’t linger. The song keeps moving. That’s kind of the point.
Toronto songwriter Keegan Powell has been building toward this kind of track for a while, working through lo-fi experimental EPs, a debut album that landed five SiriusXM rotations, and a restless stylistic range that’s taken in psychedelic rock, Britpop, and shoegaze without settling into any one of them. “Too Hard” is the most immediate thing he’s made: alt-rock momentum, sugary hooks, guitars with real bite. It’s a song about wanting to stop processing, and it has the decency to practice what it preaches.
The chorus keeps its ask simple: “I don’t wanna know / I don’t wanna think too hard.” Repeated that many times, the refrain stops being a request and starts functioning more like a mantra somebody’s using to hold themselves together. The “you can make it true” that follows puts the emotional labor on someone else entirely, which is either romantic or exhausted, probably both.
Where the song gets genuinely interesting is in the bridge: “part of you slipped through the cracks / made it to the party / part of you is numb.” It reframes the whole thing. The overwhelm isn’t external noise pouring in from outside. It’s internal fracture, pieces of a person that dissociated from the rest and somehow kept going anyway. The high-energy production doesn’t contradict that reading. If anything it underlines it.
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