CHEESY LOVE SONGS: THE LAZY EYES’ LATEST ALBUM & TOUR

CHEESY LOVE SONGS: THE LAZY EYES’ LATEST ALBUM & TOUR

PRAISE FOR THE LAZY EYES

“A playful display of perfectly crafted psychedelic rock” KCRW

“Psych-pop reverie ‘Imaginary Girl’ nods to the ‘60s’ mind-altered idealism, while the guitar-dueling freak-out ‘Where’s My Brain???’ uncovers all the paranoia that comes with it” SPIN

“Full of delicious builds, drops, and guitar work” Complex / Pigeons & Planes

“Honest-to-god really good” V Man

“The makings of a psych giant” NME Magazine (4 Stars)

The eagerly anticipated new album from The Lazy Eyes, Cheesy Love Songs has arrived, out now via AWAL. Next month the group will embark on an extensive national tour to celebrate. LISTEN HERE + BUY TIX HERE.

Cheesy Love Songs, the years-in-the-making sequel to their 2022 debut, feels like a love letter to the classic pop form – swelling choruses and yearning, bittersweet lyrics, with queues as vast as lovesick ‘60s icons to contemporary heartbreakers. It’s a breezy listen, but that effortlessness was hard won. The product of a rigorous recording period that saw The Lazy Eyes break apart their band and inspect each component one by one.

Written less so under the guise of “this is an album” and more, a question of arranging the songs themselves, to ensure that whatever came next would make good on the promise of their debut The Lazy Eyes undid their creative process time and again. Multi-tracking layers and layers of work as they had for SongBook, didn’t feel right for Cheesy Love Songs. The self-ascribed pressure to deliver something new while not being able to zero in on what felt right – a funk – eventually saw them opt for a minimalist approach.

Inspired by Rick Rubin with the zest of inspiration from recent live shows under their wings, this new lean approach was what the band had been searching for the whole time: A method of recording that represented who The Lazy Eyes are right here, right now, without the baggage of expectation. This allowed the songs to shine without embellishment, and ended up distilling everything that made the band great from the beginning into something potent and triumphant.

Cheesy Love Songs proves The Lazy Eyes are naturals when it comes to writing songs that feel unaffected and resonant – even with as saturated a subject as affection – they capture complex feelings and experiences in a way that feels simple and real above all else. The tracklist reflects their transition from teens creating serendipitously to determined young men taking on new experiences.

From the longing and disbelief laden ‘The One Who Got Away’ to the open-ended ‘How Does It Feel To Be In Love?’; to the churning ‘Always In The Back Of My Mind’ that shows The Lazy Eyes could never entirely let go of their more psychedelic influences. Woozy, heartfelt, at times mournful, their range is wide. Today’s focus ‘I Just Don’t Know You Yet’, speaks of the all too familiar sense of “tricking yourself into liking someone when you barely even know them”. Elsewhere, the poignant ‘Every Day I Lay In Bed’, a piano instrumental that offers a hopeful comfort to the malaise that inspired its making.

The Lazy Eyes’ second album represents a necessary struggle: time to go back-to-basics and with the right parts in place – like the music box that opens on ‘Ballerina’ – its beauty is something to behold. Much like the deceptively simple invention, the group’s own growth, care and attention highlights not only the inner strength to be found from your perceived weakness, but that sometimes not having all the answers can result in your best work to date. Cheesy Love Songs exudes depth in the face of its gooey surface, and its beauty is something to behold.

Cheesy Love Songs LP is out now.

AUS ALBUM TOUR
Fri 18 Sep – Crowbar – Brisbane, QLD
Sat 19 Sep – Mo’s Desert Clubhouse – Gold Coast, QLD
Thu 24 Sep – The Night Cat – Melbourne, VIC
Fri 25 Sep – The Sound Doctor – Anglesea, VIC
Fri ⁠⁠2 Oct – Jive, Adelaide – SA
Sat 3 Oct – Mojo’s, Fremantle – WA
Fri ⁠⁠9 Oct – Fun Time Pony – Canberra, ACT
Sat 10 Oct – La La La’s – Wollongong, NSW
Fri 16 Oct – The Factory – Sydney, NSW
Sat 17 Oct – The Stag & Hunter – Newcastle, NSW

Tickets available via thelazyeyes.com

ABOUT THE LAZY EYES

The Lazy Eyes— dual singer/guitarists Itay Shachar and Harvey Geraghty, drummer Noah Martin and bass player Leon Karagic—started their career with a bang, playing shows across the world, receiving high rotation on triple j and BBC Radio 6 Music, and garnering support from Matt Wilkinson, Elton John and KCRW, among others. After forming in high school and gigging around Sydney for the better part of their teenage years, they broke through with two EPs released in 2020 and 2021 that tapped into the sound of idols like King Gizzard and Tame Impala. The high school prodigies whose emergence on the scene would spread like wildfire, combined those influences with a love of pop songwriting and a knack for studio wizardry on their debut album SongBook. Released in 2022 and amassing millions of streams, in the time since the band have supported Wet Leg, Djo, The Strokes, performed at Laneway Festival, SXSW, All Points East, triple j’s Like A Version, Splendour in The Grass and toured across Australia, New Zealand, the US, Mexico, UK and Europe – all before the age of 25.

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