Lazyboy

LAZYBOY
"LAZYBOY TV"
(Universal, 2004)


"We Only Read The Headlines"


I know I mentioned this album briefly before (in the same post with another "genre-bending" artist from Denmark, their common nationality something I didn't even realize until after I'd written that post), but it's been awhile, and as I said about that other artist, this one also deserves its own post, complete with a song sample. (Besides, the artist name is kind-of appropriate ... seeing as how I'm too much of a "lazy boy" to post something completely fresh right now.)

The Danish techno-pop outfit calling themselves Lazyboy basically made all of human culture the subject of its debut album, a collection of chill beats underneath a series of voiced-over trivia tidbits, statistics, and other nuggets of information. Sometimes enlightening, sometimes ironic, sometimes humorous, and always entertaining, the spoken-word snippets are grouped into different tracks by their varying subject matter.

"Facts Of Life" and "We Only Read The Headlines" provide a string of miscellaneous factoids about pop culture and human behavior; "Are You Qualified?" examines our struggle between conformity and individuality; "Man Woman (Yin & Yang)" has the opposing sexes taking jabs at each other's idiosyncrasies; "This Is The Truth" offers philosophical observations for the listener to think about; and "It's All About Love" and "Inhale Positivity" lighten the mood with a feel-good vibe.

This is another of those albums that I can't imagine anyone not liking. And to top it off, the U.S. edition even comes with a companion DVD containing the videos of four of the album's tracks. Such a package at such a low price really makes it worth picking up. In "Inhale Positivity", Patric Allen urges listeners to "go buy a CD with music that you wouldn't normally have bought". Sounds like good advice to me.