The Lazy Eyes share new single 'Always In The Back Of My Mind'
The Lazy Eyes | Photo credit: Pooneh Ghana
Distinguished psych rock luminaries The Lazy Eyes share their third single from the anticipated Cheesy Love Songs LP. ‘Always In The Back Of My Mind’ is out now ahead of the album’s release on Aug 21. Tickets are on sale now for their extensive headline tour across Australia. Listen + watch here + pre-save LP here + buy tix here.
While the singles to date “explore our softer, love song side,” says vocalist Harvey Geraghty, ‘Always In The Back Of My Mind’ momentarily parks the sparsity. Effortlessly gliding through their range of influences throughout the upcoming record, ‘Always In The Back Of My Mind’ layers the introverted lyrical style of the album into a song that churns with sludgy guitar. A highlight of their natural knack at marrying the breadth of their influence while never entirely retreating from their psychedelic impulses – The Lazy Eyes push reverb forward with depth.
Speaking to the austerity of the process at the heart of the album, Harvey explains, “This song features one of my favourite instruments to play at home, the Farfisa Bravo. I bought it for about $50 and I just love the tone and charm that it has. It also has an inbuilt drum machine which features in the song too. It's one of those instruments that makes anything you play sound good.”
Pre-save new album Cheesy Love Songs here.
Watch the video for 'Always In The Back Of My Mind' below.
The second album from The Lazy Eyes feels like a love letter to the classic pop form: a collection of rose-tinted missives that deal in swelling choruses and yearning, bittersweet lyrics, which takes its queues from ‘60s icons like The Kinks and The Beatles as much as it does contemporary heartbreakers like The Strokes. Named in homage to ‘Cheesy Love Song’, the first track they put out, the forthcoming album represented a necessary struggle: Time to go back-to-basics, work out who The Lazy Eyes are in 2026, and return stronger than before.
A music box – the first thing you hear on the album – by its nature, isn’t easy to maintain; it requires care and attention. A deceptively simple invention, a couple of twists and it effortlessly lets out a beautiful, delicate melody. Of course, beneath the porcelain façade, it’s hardly effortless; it requires dozens of precisely machined parts, working in perfect harmony. If one part falters or rusts, the music stops. But with the right parts in place, its beauty is something to behold. All The Lazy Eyes’ growth might be contained in that idea: That not knowing isn’t a weakness, but a strength; that sometimes not having all the answers can result in your best work to date.
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.
The Lazy Eyes - Cheesy Love Songs album tracklisting
1. Ballerina
2. The One Who Got Away
3. Mr Histograph
4. You Were A Child
5. Always In The Back Of My Mind
6. How Does It Feel To be In Love?
7. Never Will She Know
8. You’re The One
9. I Just Don’t Know You Yet
10. Keep Her By My Side
11. Every Day I Lay In Bed
