Rising Sydney psych outfit The Lazy Eyes today share ‘The Island’, the last single from their second release, EP2, paired to a dreamy video that quickly evolves to the nightmarish.
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Each song on tomorrow’s EP2 channels a different path and emotion to the last, between love songs and jam songs, The Lazy Eyes deliver a track for each twisted journey in life. Joining the lovelorn ‘Nobody Taught Me’ and the polychromatic trip of ‘Where’s My Brain???,’ is latest single ‘The Island,’ a continuation of the story The Lazy Eyes started with ‘The Seaside’ that they reveal, is a song for escapism, “a song that while listening, you can close your eyes to and let your imagination create imagery.”
The band adds: “’The Island’ was written about a place where none of The Lazy Eyes band members have been in real life, and acts as the sequel to ‘The Seaside’ from EP1. It’s an imaginary island that is a sort of utopia but is also filled with mystery. The writing process and a demo recording took place in Harvey’s childhood bedroom, he recalls, ‘all I remember was recording a terrible demo on GarageBand and really struggling to sing it because I had a cold that day. It’s interesting to hear the demo these days because you can hear the parts before they were refined as a result of playing the song over and over live.’”
