{"id":31532,"date":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/31532\/stolen-guitars-kafta-and-ufos-the-evolution-of-lazzy-lung"},"modified":"2023-08-11T03:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T03:33:27","slug":"stolen-guitars-kafta-and-ufos-the-evolution-of-lazzy-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/31532\/stolen-guitars-kafta-and-ufos-the-evolution-of-lazzy-lung\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Guitars, Kafta and UFOs: The Evolution of Lazzy Lung"},"content":{"rendered":"For a band with a lead singer that spent most of his childhood believing that UFOs are God (ironically, he originally hails from a Canadian town with the most reported UFO sightings in the world), and a bassist that shrivels at the mere mention of spit, Lazzy Lung seem to be doing pretty well. Having taken an almost three year break after their debut album – a risky move in an erratic city with the attention span of, well, a fish – their new album is at long last complete. However, the term \u2018break\u2019 is thoroughly debatable, seeing as though they spent it partaking in competitions – and winning. In addition to garnering the prestigious title of Esquire Middle East magazine\u2019s “Band of the Year” in 2011, they also unanimously won Rolling Stones Middle East\u2019s Battle of the Bands that same year.

Then there was their much-talked about tour of the Middle East, opening for American garage rock band The Black Lips, which took them across the region to Dubai, Cyprus, Egypt, and Iraq, among other places. \u201cIt had absolutely no effect on our music,\u201d said lead vocalist Allan Chaaraoui, \u201cIt was like Project X [the movie], except I was the owner of the house,\u201d he adds, fastidiously glaring at bassist Imad Jawad. \u201cIt was an intense, crazy experience, to say the least,\u201d adds Jawad.



After teasing audiences with an EP which dropped in October of last year, their new album, Sailor’s Delight<\/i>, mastered by Grammy-award winning studio engineer Emily Lazar \u2013 who lists Lou Reed, The Foo Fighters, Bjork, and Sonic Youth among her many clients – and mixed by Karim Sinno, of Broken Records Production Studios, is set to be released this April. Lazzy will be performing these songs for the first time live at Metro Madina on March 13<\/a>.

Those familiar with Lazzy Lung\u2019s trademark sound will be in for a pleasant surprise with this new album. After a tumultuous creative process in which the band faced many challenges, from line-up changes to stolen gear and meticulous revision of each and every sound on the record (entire songs were scrapped in some cases), they came out with what they regard as a truly raw record. Self-described as less commercial and definitely edgier with punk influences, Sailor’s Delight<\/i> is an extensive deviation from the much more lax Strange Places<\/i> album released in 2010.

Yet what strikes you the most about this band is the undeniable bond maintained between Chaaraoui and Jawad, the two original members. A friend passed by during the interview with Beirut.com and vehemently exclaimed, \u201cYou two [Chaaraoui and Jawad] have the best bromance!\u201d a refreshing response given the reputation of the music industry on band dynamics. They spent the night recounting stories of their past escapades: Chaaraoui once avoiding a meeting by pretending he was high on Dexedrine, finding their gear – well, sort of – after it was stolen from the backseat of Allan’s car in the winter of 2012. Turns out, some guy was trying to sell it online. Chaaroui contacted the guy, who continues to this day to promise he’ll give it back, but to no avail. \u201cHe keeps telling us to give him until the end of the month,\u201d cries Jawad in astonishment. There was also that time Chaaraoui made Jawad puke on Valentine’s Day just by gargling spit in his mouth, or how Jawad couldn\u2019t sleep for days when he found out former guitarist Anthony Sahyoun had been playing out of tune for an entire show while he blissfully strummed his bass away.

Their greatest influences, a question the duo were extremely reluctant to answer, are simply their \u201ceveryday lives, rather than a specific band or artist,\u201d explains Chaaraoui, \u201cAlso kafta and my mom,\u201d jokes Jawad. Day to day events are the main forces behind their lyrics and melody, and they admit that a lot of their songs begin as Whatsapp conversations. \u201cI\u2019ll just be sitting down and then I\u2019ll get a tune in my head so I\u2019ll send Allan a voice note and he\u2019ll reply with a lyric,\u201d explains Jawad.

The much-awaited album is sure to live up to all the hype. It’s almost needless to say, a city like Beirut could certainly stand to learn a lot by following Lazzy Lung’s infectious lyrics, “Settle it out on the dance floor.”

Sailor’s Delight<\/i> is available for download on iTunes<\/a> and on Google Play<\/a>. You can also check out more from the band on Soundcloud<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.


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