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The Lazy Eyes Announce Debut U.S. Headline Tour

On sale begins this Friday Sept 16, with local presale beginning today.

The new guard of psych rock, The Lazy Eyes, are announcing their debut North American tour, finally bringing their live show from Australia to the US this fall, with the US dates starting on Nov 7 in San Fransisco. This tour is in support of their much-anticipated debut album, Songbook, out earlier this year. On sale begins this Friday Sept 16, with local presale beginning today - tickets available HERE .

At home, they've opened for The Strokes, Wet Leg, and CHAI, and have played densely-populated sets at The Great Escape (UK) and Splendour In The Grass (Australia), and have just recently wrapped up their own headline tours of Australia and the UK. They also just did an outstandingly fuzzy triple j "Like A Version" cover of The Bee Gees' "More Than A Woman."

The Lazy Eyes mesh a myriad sides to their psych-rock sound, from driving, distorted Black Sabbath -esque guitar riffs to the sunnied, vintage-soaked escapism of 60s psych-pop, from blistering dual guitar solos to washed out shoegaze. Bonded by their formative high school years, the intimacy of The Lazy Eyes' friendship is felt in their music, and comes to life in an electric way during their live shows (which often turn rowdy in the best way).

Following key releases from their first two EPs, 'Where's My Brain???', 'Tangerine' and 'Cheesy Love Song,' the band's breakout album single, 'Fuzz Jam', became triple j's #1 Most Played Song upon release. Mainstream praise has continued to follow The Lazy Eyes every step, from Lauren Laverne as the Spotlight Artist on 6 Music and #24 on the Shazam charts, playlisting on BBC 6 Music's A List and acclaim from NME, SPIN, Complex/Pigeons & Planes, V Man, Face Melts, KCRW, Flood, and more.

Like every good fantasy world, that of The Lazy Eyes abides by its own logic - suddenly you're in a garden in full blossom, and you didn't even notice; you've walked a mile without taking a single step and earworms zip zorp past. Now we're able to fully step inside, into the same room.

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Local Presale [Only applies to: SF, LA, Santa Ana, NY]: Today, Sept 14 at 10am-10pm local On sale: Fri, Sept 16 at 10am local

Nov 7, 2022 - Cafe Du Nord - San Francisco, CA Nov 8, 2022 - The Echo- Los Angeles, CA Nov 9, 2022 - Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA Nov 13, 2022 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY Nov 14, 2022 - DC9 - Washington, DC Nov 15, 2022 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA

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“Explosive, Colourful, & Nostalgic”: The Lazy Eyes Deliver a Kaleidoscopic Psych Rock Revue in Debut ‘SongBook’

Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes open up about their intoxicating debut album SongBook, a kaleidoscopic feast for the ears whose colorful, psychedelic sonic wonder promises to whisk listeners into a radiant, groovy daydream.

For fans of led zeppelin, tame impala, king gizzard & the lizard wizard, stream: “fuzz jam” – the lazy eyes.

I t’s an intro for the ages: Fiery drums pulse a heavy beat and sweeping guitars churn out searing riffs as The Lazy Eyes’ debut album gets underway. Passion and wonder coalesce in dazzling waves of immersive, sweaty sound, and a sense of limitless possibility permeates the air: Catharsis and euphoria are within reach. An intoxicating, kaleidoscopic feast for the ears, The Lazy Eyes’ SongBook  is everything one could want from the Australian four-piece: An enchanting tapestry of colorful, psychedelic sonic wonder ready to whisk us into a radiant, groovy daydream.

Maybe you’d love me if I told you how I felt How I needed help What would’ve happened if at long last I lost you?

Care to inform me that your love for me has grown well, i should’ve known darling, just show me or else i’ll drop the phone, maybe i’m perfect but i know that’s just not true and neither are you ‘cause nobody’s perfect and that’s just the cold hard truth, – “ cheesy love song ,” the lazy eyes.

Released April 21, 2022, SongBook  is a gift to psych rock lovers everywhere and a massive step forward for Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes. Comprised of Harvey Geraghty (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Itay Sasha (vocals, guitar), Leon Karagic (bass) and Noah Martin (drums), the Australian band – started as a 3-piece busking act – have made a quick name for themselves over the past two years as harbingers of captivating sun-soaked psychedelia: 2020’s fittingly-titled EP1 and 2021’s (also) fittingly-titled EP2 invited listeners to bask in the unadulterated glow of high-flying, carefully crafted solos, tastefully effected instruments, and enveloping songs that feel at once ethereal and slightly mysterious, yet nonetheless grounded and readily accessible.

“There’s something to be said about a band with an ear for detail and a discerning approach to songwriting,” wrote Atwood Magazine ‘s Nick Matthopoulos in April 2020, around the release of The Lazy Eyes’ second single. “That being said, maybe a bit extra can be said about a band, all under the age of twenty, that has been diligently working on refining their sound since they were in their mid-teenage years. While age is hardly a reliable system to measure how capable an artist is, The Lazy Eyes demonstrate how they have been able to put their abilities to good use from an early age.”

Years of hard work, dedication, and creativity pay off in  SongBook , a tantalizing psychedelic affair with a flare.

“Boy has it been a long time coming,” band member Itay Sasha tells  Atwood Magazine . “This record for us captures the entire journey of our formative years as a band until the present moment. It’s an album packed full of firsts, and captures that nostalgic energy of being young and really loving music. We started recording the very first pieces of this album in the middle of high school, before we even knew it would turn into an album. During the making of the album we learnt so many things from scratch; how to record, mix audio, make album art, the list goes on! We were learning how to record our songs, how to condense the energy of playing live into the recordings and just becoming closer as friends along the way. And here we are years later with our first project fully realized. SongBook is our first baby and it encapsulates the first era of The Lazy Eyes.”

“We never had a vision for an “album” per se going into things, he adds. “We just had this motto, ‘ Once school finishes, let’s take a gap year and try and work our butts off for the band .’ Now it’s three years later,” he laughs. “Things take time but it’s been an incredible ride nevertheless. Eventually, we envisioned collecting all the songs we wrote in high school into a sort of chapter book of our lives back then, hence SongBook was born.”

Not only does  SongBook date back to the band’s early days, but it also tracks their growth, development, and a kind of linear progression as they came into their own, especially over these more recent years. “We never try to do something that we are not, and I think that shines through on this album for better or for worse,” Sasha remarks. “Sometimes, we wear our hearts on our sleeves and don’t hide what we were inspired by or what we were aiming for. In a nutshell, we were trying to be as authentic and as “us” as possible. And, I guess we’re really proud of that! SongBook is a really transparent look into who we are as artists and friends.”

As for the title, Sasha says it is what it is: “We don’t have a knack for coming up with creative names, do we?” he smirks. “We just thought, well, that’s what it is . It’s our little book of songs detailing the journey we’ve taken together since the inception of the band until now.”

Highlights abound from that cinematic intro through to the band’s heartwarming “Cheesy Love Song” – a Beatles-esque finale that shines with an intimate vulnerability and musical tenderness.  SongBook compiles the six songs from the band’s two EPs with six new tracks, and while previously released songs like “The Seaside” and “The Island” remain standouts on the LP, additions like the smoldering “Hippo,” the hypnotizing and charged (and very apropos) “Fuzz Jam,” and the sweetly lilting “Imaginary Girl” (an outpouring of truly dreamy warmth reminiscent of The Zombies and Pet Sounds era The Beach Boys) succeed at expanding The Lazy Eyes’ universe into fresh, new, and exciting terrains.

I didn’t know if you were real, the signs you gave me didn’t feel right ‘Cause in my mind there’s lots of mist, the times we spent did not exist Ah, it means we never kissed The people that I thought I knew, they didn’t know just what to do, honey ‘Cause when they said the coast was clear, I didn’t know she’d disappear

No ordinary girl imaginary girl, ‘cause if you ever were to leave, i’m not sure if i could sleep but if i asked if you could stay, i wonder just what you would say no, honey, don’t leave me alone i live my life in so much fear, the fear that you will disappear the moment that you leave my head, i will stop taking my meds.

“I think we’ve all ended up liking different elements of the record,” Sasha reflects. “A track like ‘Hippo’ is cool because it was one of the few songs the band recorded as a real band. Usually it’s just Harvey and I sitting in the studio and adding things one by one, but with the instrumentals on the album we wanted to capture the chemistry we have from playing live. It’s got a different effect to it and it gives the listener a bit of light and shade in that way. All of us really dig Harvey’s song, ‘Imaginary Girl,’ too. I have super fond memories of recording from around that time.”

As for the band’s lyrics? “Lyrics can go one of a few ways in our songs,” he says. “Sometimes, we touch on themes like love and escapism and other times we write pure nonsense or just give the music a vessel through the words. I like the lyrics for ‘Tangerine’ in that way. There’s a few interesting strings of words in there and the thing was written purely for the mouthfeel and to keep the rhythm of the melody really bouncy and light. I love Harvey’s lyrics in ‘The Island,’ because they paint a picture and take you on a journey to a made-up place.”

Tangerine quarantine my breakfast club’s waiting for me They’ll do it without me Marmalade Kool-Aid grade my test testing stung by a bee Oh no no not me

Wait, wait around for me, it’ll be a breeze don’t go, oh no, without me, butterscotch butterfingers hopscotch round enmore theatre they’re having a show your invite is also mine it depends in the deep end bring your friends, – “ tangerine ,” the lazy eyes.

From end to end,  SongBook is a tantalizing adventure through layers of radiant sonic seduction and impassioned emotional release.

A truly explosive, colorful, and nostalgic world unto itself (as Sasha lovingly calls it), The Lazy Eyes’ first full length succeeds at bringing all their bits and bobs together, building upon the promising foundations of their previous releases. Beyond holding listeners’ attention throughout, the album delivers an invigorating, impressively expansive and equally cohesive performance from a beacon of light in the psychedelic music world.

The Lazy Eyes’ world is limitless, weightless, wondrous, and utterly spellbinding.

Up on a hill, I can see a figure wandering He’s down on a beach, does he know that I am watching him?

Does he know, all the places you can go, on this island that i know all the caves and all the snow, on the mountains there are goats on this island i call home, (home), – “ the island ,” the lazy eyes.

“We really hope that it can inspire people and spark your imagination,” Sasha shares. “For us, this album reminds us of all the good times we shared together and it’s rewarding to have a memento there when you want to look back on things. We hope you enjoy it!”

Experience the full record via our below stream, and peek inside The Lazy Eyes’ SongBook with Atwood Magazine as Itay Sasha goes track-by-track through the music and lyrics of the band’s debut album!

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The bombastic drums at the start of the album signify how we’ve started our live shows for many years. That feeling of trying to capture something grandiose and larger than life, and shocking people into listening and turning their heads! The sound of “Intro” encapsulates the ‘Lazy Eyes’ sound, and even has a bit of a formula to it that can be found in our other songs. The structure is one big crescendo which grows and grows and slowly releases more and more energy until it climaxes with a soaring high melody. An overly indulgent guitar solo to kick things off? Why not 😉

The seaside, after the climactic end of “intro” you are left stranded, washed up on the deserted seaside of a magical and forgotten island. you start to wonder about and explore the sights and sounds and listen to the water “swelling like a potion”. there’s something strange in there, but you are too terrified and your guard is too high to let you find out. the song takes you on a long and sprawling adventure through the outer perimeters of this strange island and you become one with your surroundings and float into “the eyes of the ocean.”.

As you gain some confidence, your curiosity overcomes you and you are determined to decipher what’s what “on this Island I call home”. You embark wearily into the depths of the Island on a quest to face it’s mystical and dark inner workings. Similar to the previous song, you were naive to explore and “The Island” laughs at you and takes you on countless twists and turns through the hallucinogenic scenery. Caves, hills, the sound of bombs and imaginary people engulf you before “The Island” takes you on one last adventure as you eat a psychedelic tangerine and ascend through space and time.

“Tangerine” describes a nonsensical world that you face where the breeze is salty and the rhythms are bouncy and effervescent. The psychedelic Tangerine you regrettably consumed earlier is playing tricks on your psyche and you “Hopscotch with butterfingers” through the countless shores and riverbanks of the Island. As is expected, “Tangerine” doesn’t play nice and before you know it, whiplashes you into a rock n’ roll freak jam you weren’t prepared to partake in. The climax of the song approaches and you hear the sirens of “Tangerine” permeate through your skull as it knocks you out and you fall sound asleep.

Lying on the banks of the Seaside, as you awake from your deep slumber you can’t believe your eyes as a universally conscious Hippo trudges towards you. Unaware of what emotion to feel, a sudden burst of euphoria washes over you as you both accept your fate as one in the same and you and the Hippo dance together to the sound of a… hip hop beat? Eh, whatever. Similar to “Intro”, the track is a never-ending crescendo that unleashes new shades and colours as it evolves towards a galavanting bundle of energy and then lifelessly falls back down.

Starting Over

“starting over” is a grounding love song on the album that has a more simplistic pop song structure. it is the end of side a on the vinyl so the listener is literally “starting over” and beginning the second half of the album. a funny memory of recording this song was secretly recording the harpsichord solo in a piano store while assuring the owner that we were “just having a look.”.

“Fuzz Jam” is the most danceable song on the album due to its straight ahead beat and repetitive bassline. The song spawned from Harvey beatboxing to himself in the bathroom mirror. That’s how the main bass line was written and the rest of the song was written in the demoing stages. The song was primarily written to include a heavier song to play during the piano segment of the live set. Hence, the original name of the demo was “pianet fuzz jam”. The lyrics are short and sweet only including four lines which gives it a mantra-like quality.

Nobody taught me, “nobody taught me” is another love song that has more of a simple structure on the album similar to starting over. it was written about harvey’s experiences while visiting his grandparents in england. harvey had friends in england who he would play out on the street with all the time. one trip he realised that all his friends had moved house and he missed them very much. ‘nobody taught me’ encapsulates the good and the sad times experienced in england, from the excitement of playing on the street to the heartbreak of being left alone., “trance” is the last of three instrumental transitions on the album (after intro and hippo). itay sometimes mentions how he has no memory of writing this song. the recording starts with a big epic intro and then leads into the big crescendoing structure that all the instrumentals share. trance signals that the end of the album is close., where’s my brain, “where’s my brain” is the song to lose your mind to. it’s an almost 7 min long freakout jam packed with everlasting dual guitar solos and dynamics that reach 0 to 100. the song was written to have a heavier mosh out moment in the live set so be sure to get up and dance around the room for this one..

Imaginary Girl

Being one of the more emotional songs on the album “imaginary girl” is a story about someone who is falling in love with an imaginary figure. the song’s chord progression has the never ending descending pattern which creates a feeling of falling endlessly deeper and deeper., cheesy love song, ah, congratulations. you’ve made it to the end. “cheesy love song” is a full circle moment as the song is wholesome in a few ways. it was the first single the band ever put out, it’s one of the few songs that harvey and itay actually wrote together in the same room from scratch, and it was written in the band’s high school where the band met and formed. starting with a ballad intro and ending in a full blast finale, the song takes you on a journey similar to the album as a whole, reaching the highest highs and lowest lows. thank you for listening, we hope you have enjoyed ‘songbook’..

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The Lazy Eyes announce second EP with new single ‘Where’s My Brain???’

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The Lazy Eyes have announced the upcoming release of their sophomore EP, dropping a new single and sharing tour dates.

The band return in 2021 today (February 3) with a new single, ‘Where’s My Brain???’, the first taste of The Lazy Eyes’ next chapter.

In a press release, the band explained that ‘Where’s My Brain???’ was written during the band’s formative years, at a time “when the setlist was lacking fast paced, energetic tracks”.

“We needed that one last song that the audience could mosh and get sweaty to,” they said.

“The song is loosely about losing your mind over something and wanting to have a tantrum, but really it’s just a jam.”

The track dropped alongside an official music video, directed by Jesse Taylor-Smith.

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The Lazy Eyes will celebrate the release of their new single with a limited run of live shows. Find the dates below.

They’ve also announced their intention to release their sophomore EP this year, though no name or release date has been given as yet.

• READ MORE: The Lazy Eyes – ‘EP1′ review: Sydney teens’ debut release shows makings of a psych giant

The psych-rock Sydney outfit dropped their debut EP, ‘EP1’, in June of last year. Upon its release, NME said in its review that The Lazy Eyes “coast from dazed pop to shameless love ballads, claiming pole position for the next mainstage psych outfit along the way”.

“These Aussie teens are blazing a fresh path for psych-pop with a mesmeric throwback sound – and as that dialogue might suggest, they’re not cutting any corners.”

The band were also featured in The NME 100 – a list of essential emerging artists for 2021 – at the close of last year.

The Lazy Eyes’ tour dates are:

FEBRUARY Saturday 20 – Melbourne, Workers Club Friday 26 – Brisbane, Black Bear Lodge

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The Lazy Eyes are a four-piece psychedelic rock band based in Sydney, Australia. The band are Harvey Geraghty (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Itay Sasha (vocals, guitar), Leon Karagic (bass) and Noah Martin (drums).

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The Aussie quartet’s psychedelic indie-rock is the perfect combination of weird and wonderful, and will transport you to a beach house Down Under bursting with colour.

The psychedelic, hypnotic sound of The Lazy Eyes has gained them over 1.5 million streams since the release of their first EP. Now that their high school days are behind them, the band are on their way to gifting the world more psychedelic pizzazz as they come ever closer to releasing EP2.

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We had a chat with vocalist and guitarist Itay Shachar to discover more about their trippy aesthetic and recording under a bunk bed…

How have you progressed as a band since you recorded EP1 last year?

“We were in a totally different headspace when we recorded EP1. Those tracks felt like easing pressure after having sat on them since our high school days, so as soon as we got out, we thought ‘Okay, we have to do this now.’ With EP2, we had a bit more time for the textures and layers of the songs to manifest. Harvey and I would go into our little home studio and just peel back the songs like onions. We think the production is an improvement on this EP, the tracks feel more like a tapestry and there are bits that only come in for a second and then disappear forever.”

Where’s My Brain???  was originally recorded under a bunk bed. How was that experience for you?

“That was back in the day when we would, without permission, rehearse in my little brother’s bedroom. I remember we kept on getting shocked to the mouth by our vocal mics because the power situation in the room was so dodgy, so we put these colourful socks over it. Enhanced the music, maybe… I don’t think it sounded special, but it did feel really cool to feel so synchronised. It was the first song that we weren’t scared to both be playing the exact same thing on guitar. It may have sounded empty, but soon enough the energy we gave it made up for that.”

How was working with Jesse Taylor Smith for the video?

“We were really grateful to get to work with Jesse and dump our over-ambitious sci-fi ideas into his lap. We knew he had the right juice after being in awe from the videos he made with a hero band of ours, Pond. We came up with the idea that we wanted to be flying through space on a musical spaceship with Sabbath -esque duelling guitars. Jesse’s idea was to instead make the world we were zooming through inner space. We were literally on a journey to find the brain.”

Tell us about your current guitar and pedal set up…

“Our current setups have been worked through a million renditions over the course of a few years. We’ve had the same setup for quite a while now, and we get everything we need. We’re not necessarily the type to dish out money and buy the newest, coolest pedal just ‘because’. Most of our purchases, both instrument and pedal-wise, are to fulfil a very specific niche that we hear in our heads or to recreate from the recordings. The three pedalboards between us were very much a collaborative endeavour.”

Of all the music you have released so far, do you have any standout guitar moments?

“At the end of Cheesy Love Song , there’s a bit where the guitar ascends into the sky like a raging siren or a motorbike zooming past in slow motion. We’re proud of that moment and enjoy that the end of that song in general sounds like it has nothing at all to do with the start. Halfway through the take we twist the knobs on the pedal to make the ascending line rush by even faster. In a live sense, we love ripping into the Brain  solos. If the vibrations are right and our muscles relax, it can really feel like we’re really playing together… Sometimes, definitely not! In the next part of that song there’s a Shepard tone which plays underneath this slowly ascending and descending ostinato.”

Tell us about your most interesting piece of gear…

“We really enjoy nerding out about weird gear. It would probably have to be one of my pedals, called a Maestro Phaser. There was a period where my favourite pastime would be jumping on YouTube and exploring videos of bizarre and wonderful guitar pedals. One night, I stumbled across this pedal and its sound was so beautiful and open. We’re really picky with the way phasers sound, we like when the range is really full, and it can sound wonky if you need it to. Harvey has a vintage pearl phaser on his board, too. But the coolest thing about the Maestro is its functionality. You have to kick the entire front face to turn the thing on and there are huge circular knobs placed on either side of the box so you can roll them under your feet like tennis balls to adjust the settings on the fly.”

What’s your most memorable gig?

“It would have to be playing a support show at the Enmore Theatre! We were so grateful to play there and it didn’t disappoint. The venue is special to us because we would’ve walked past hundreds of times each on our daily route to and from school. It’s the typical thing where you always dream about playing there, so when we did, man, were we keen! Our music video for Tangerine  was shot with footage our mate Spencer took of us performing live at Enmore. It’s a full circle moment because he lyrics to that song it go “hopscotch round Enmore theatre, they’re having a show…” We’d really like to imagine a highly disinterested audience member playing a very insular game of hopscotch right at the back of the venue that night.”

What’s been the most surreal moment in your time in this band?

“The band has been grinding away for a while now, so some really happy moments have popped up over the course of that. By far the most surreal thing to have happened recently is to meet and work with the celebrated record producer, Chris Thomas. He truly is a legend! Just knowing that he was in the room whilst some of our absolute favourite music ever was being recorded is such a surreal thought. We’re going to use his mentorship on our next collection of songs and see what happens!”

The Lazy Eyes’ EP2 is out July 23 via The Orchard . 

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By:  inna nemchenco, and so i watch you from afar |  website |   facebook |    , moscow teatr | april 15, 2015.

The promo tour for Heirs , the new a;bum by And So I Watch You From Afar , headed to Russia in April 2015. The band’s last tour was a massive math invasion to 15 cities of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine. So now 3 years after these great times the band came back to play in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. All shows were locally supported by 6 bands. Moscow has seen two of these: Weary Eyes and Pobeda .

The show started with Weary Eyes, a post-metal Moscow quartet, formed in 2011, on ruins of many bands according to their official bio. The band bass player Nikita says that ASIWYFA is nearly the only one common favorite band for all Weary Eyes members. Still, they are doing their own way combining reflexive melodic fragments with smashing walls of sound. That evening Weary Eyes played powerful side of their recent EP and a couple of new tracks. Surprisingly ASIWYFA’s Niall Kennedy was noticed on the floor watching Weary Eyes live.

Another local supporter Pobeda was a dark horse for me. ‘A band that is not strictly instrumental anymore’ they said. Only one available track in the whole internet. A little net-scrolling revealed that a former post-rock band is now playing with a vocalist from Venezuela. The sound of Pobeda has much more notes of late 90’s post-hardcore (Fugazi, ADTI) with a slight mathematic trace.

ASIWYFA decided not to tease the happy and passionate crowd and came on stage exactly the expected 9 p.m. and started right from the new material from Heirs . ‘Wasps’ and ‘Run Home’ immediately got the crew stage diving and dancing. Next the band played absolutely new ‘These Secret Kings I Know’. Opposite to previous bands experiments with vocalizing which have some ethnic accent this one sounds closer to early band times with strict mathematic rhythm. Add this to brilliant live playing and massive energy blast that the band put into the show. No need to add how well this trick worked.

This prologue was like one deep breath. The next epic part came with the Gangs album themes (Beautifuluniverse.., Gang). The wave of energy was getting higher and the peak point turned to be at ‘7 Billion People All Alive At Once’. In fact it was played by 7 artists. At vocal time ASIWYFA musicians suddenly took a step back from microphones. The same second Weary Eyes members rushed out to stage to sing along. That was the moment when nobody on the floor could keep silence for. Personally I felt like I just got to know pure sense of the word ‘musicianship’.

The main set ended with other portion of new tracks was played (‘Heirs’,’ Tryer’). The last melodies of the show sounded cosmic with long-lasting complicated and repetitive riffs. That impression is not typical for the band. It makes you guess why the cover art of Heirs has a cosmonaut.

This impression stayed on encore tracks. Was a real pleasure to hear a couple of themes from previous album (‘Euonia’, ‘Big Things Do Remarkable’), as it wasn’t promoted in Russia previously. These themes sounded soulful and touching with special ethnic notes. A final dot was rough and heavy ‘Set Guitars to Kill’. That was the best finish to the show that revealed the main idea of the band: with the minimum of electronics (board and loop) they captivate with smart heavy sounds.

Joy is the main feeling you have from the records of ASIWYFA and it comes ten times more when you see it live, they leave it on some upper-earthy level.

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