We first featured Lazy Legs back in 2016, when we described their self-titled EP as “a heavy mix of shoegaze and noise pop, a million miles from the sugary sweet jangle at the other end of the genre’s spectrum.” Since then, the band—Michael Tenzer and Laura Wagner—have released their debut VISIONDEATH and relocated from Chicago to Portland. Rather than put creative pursuits on hold for a while, they decided to used that period of change to make a new EP “centered around the idea of how anxiety manifests differently in people,” a record designed to “match their transition to a new life in Portland.”
The EP is called Tremor and the first single, ‘Gloss’, has just been unveiled. It’s very much a Lazy Legs song, pulling off the quiet/loud dynamic effortlessly, and managing to be both woozily captivating and cathartically empowering across its six minute run-time. Tenzer says the song was inspired by thoughts on “vanity and narcissism in social media, particularly this kind of faux-tragic mystique that people employ to simultaneously mask and show off their insecurities,” so there’s a little thematic bite to things too. It’s certainly whet my appetite for the EP.
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You can get ‘Gloss’ now from the Lazy Legs Bandcamp page, ahead of the release of Tremor on the 20th of April.