Tuomo Prättälä and Markus Nordenstreng – singers, songwriters and co-founders of a band they named the easy way, after the ties that bind and bring this music – open Game Changing, their second album, with a contradiction we all know too well from the past two years: the sense and sound of time at once frozen and flying by; hours passing with agonizing stillness as the days and weeks run in a blur that seems to leave hope and options by the side of the road.