Hoping latest single is a Smash hit

pSYCHEDELIC RIDE: Lazy Fifty band vocalist Adrian Athy says their new single Falling into You invites the listener to join them on a magic carpet ride with flowers breathing colour into life. The band are performing tomorrow night and have two gigs confirmed for Auckland in November. From left are Athy, drummer Aidan Walters, rhythm guitarist Joseph Carroll and bass player Toko Mantis. Picture by Jordan Perry

Hard rock and blues band Lazy Fifty are set to keep locals grooving at Smash Palace tomorrow night with their latest single Falling into You.

The single is off their fourth album 2021: A Lazy Odyssey — a play on the title of the 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey — which was released in November of last year.

“Falling Into You is not a love song but rather more about realisation and how I was feeling at that time,” vocalist Adrian Athy said.

It is the “heaviest” song on the album. With its interesting time changes (rhythmic) and psychedelic lyrics, the music orchestration is something a bit different for the band.

“I often find it challenging to write a song that you can make interesting — not only for the musicians but also appealing to the listener.

“But I think we have achieved that through this single and that's the way forward for us.”

Athy puts the single under the progressive rock category — a broad genre of rock music that developed in the UK and USA through the mid-to-late-1960s although the band is more influenced by 70s rock and British blues music such as the Deep Purple and Johnny Winter.

The band also drew much of its stimulus from progressive groups such as American metal band Dream Theatre and English rock band Muse.

Falling Into You was written pre-Covid-19.

Athy said it was an “out-take” on the band's second album Fifty Shades of Lazy.

“It never made it on the album because it wasn't good enough. But when we started working with producer Greg Haver, it presented us a good opportunity to jump on with that and chuck it in.”

At tomorrow's Smash performance, the band will also play crowd favourites such as My Hand which made it to the top 25 on the Scotland Rocks Radio singles charts for 2021.

Another “biggie” is their song No No No, which made it to No.15 on Radio Rock UK's 2021 top new rock singles chart last year — surpassing the likes of a Billy Idol single.

The band are on the road in November for gigs in Auckland alongside Australian band 19-Twenty.