The best Smerz songs saunter by like a hostess maneuvering through the chicest soiree in town: by the time you catch her eye, she’s already off to a new room. Fleeting moments are the fascia of the Norwegian duo’s enigmatic post-pop; brevity is both the medium and message. “Have I said too much?” singer Catharina Stoltenberg wonders on “Easy,” the closer to their transfixing 2025 album Big city life . For all the off-handed pseudo-scene reporting that colors that record, Smerz kept their cards close to their chest at the end, as if the wrong incantation might wreck the spell altogether. Their beguiling new EP, Easy , uses the track of the same name as a jumping-off point to explore snapshots of life at the precipice of womanhood. Stoltenberg and bandmate Henriette Motzfeldt bill the EP as a “tangent” building off “Easy,” which doesn’t appear on the tracklist but hangs in the air across these six songs.…