Album review – The Lazys – Tropical Hazards
By STEVE MASCORD
THE video for “Nothing But Trouble” should be enough to tell you this is something special from the Central Coast boys. Blazing guitars, a howling vocalist, bread and fruit flying.
But the Lazys have always been able to record astonishing songs – “Shake It Like You Mean It”, “All Fired Up”, “Howling Woman”. A ball-crushing single did not necessarily indicate Tropical Hazards would be a great album.
We live in an era where there is no patience for new bands to develop, particularly rock bands, and these boys have been around for a decade.
At least that’s what people like to say. But that patience used to be provided by major labels and now those labels have little or no involvement in genre so, though a perverse process which has seen rock recede from the mainstream, the patience is back.