“Cheesy Love Songs’ feels like jumping between different decades without ever completely belonging to one of them” - The Lazy Eyes - Cheesy Love Songs - Album Review - By The Fans Magazine

Words & Review: Jenna Stoch

Photography Credit: Pooneh Ghana

The Lazy Eyes Album Review: Cheesy Love Songs

Ballerina

This intro sounds like opening up and winding a little jewellery box. It’s super cute and such a unique way to start the album. It immediately sets up this nostalgic, almost dreamy feeling for everything that follows.

The One Who Got Away

Okay, automatically I feel like I’m time travelling back to the 60s. Their sound here feels very Elton John-esque and it’s so groovy. I love the bass in this song too. I can genuinely picture it being used in a romcom set in the 50s or 60s, with the main character singing about their love interest. I also really enjoy the way it fades out at the end.

Mr Histograph

This feels like a song being played in the middle of a field somewhere in Ireland, if that makes any sense. I love how the instruments almost feel like they’re talking to you. Everything just flows really well. Then at around the two-minute mark it gets a little wacky and unexpected, which makes it even cooler.

You Were A Child

This immediately gives me Beatles vibes. I really love the vocals here and the whole song just feels like a breath of fresh air. It has such a warm, nostalgic feeling to it without sounding dated.

Always In The Back Of My Mind

The beat slows down a little here and has this almost burlesque feel to it. There’s an uneasiness running through the song that I found super intriguing. It’s honestly a very sexy song. It feels like it’s about having someone constantly sitting in the back of your mind, where the timing is never quite right but there’s still this undeniable attraction between you. There’s something seductive about the whole thing. In the same way a lover might lure you in, the song does too.

“There’s a lot of locomotion swimming around my mind and it’s all because of you” really sums that feeling up.

How Does It Feel To Be In Love?

A beautiful, slow piano song with really lovely vocals. Then at around 1:25 it suddenly starts opening up and becomes much bigger and more theatrical.

The song feels like someone genuinely trying to understand what being in love is supposed to feel like. There’s this sense of yearning and curiosity throughout it. I get slight ABBA and Queen vibes, but with The Lazy Eyes’ own twist on it.

Never Will She Know

I really like how so many of the songs on this album count you in at the beginning. This one comes in bass-heavy, jazzy and extremely groovy. A real finger-snapper.

Again, there’s that 60s feeling, but this one especially sounds like it could be part of a musical. I’m already seeing the choreography that could go with it haha.

You’re The One

This one is really unique. Again, I get a slight Beatles influence from it. While listening, I kept picturing a man and a woman dancing together, both trying to convince the other person that they’re “the one.” There’s something playful and theatrical about it that makes the whole song feel like a scene rather than just a track.

I Just Don’t Know You Yet

This has more of a 2000s romcom sound to me, but with some extra spice thrown in. It feels lighter at first, then gets slightly heavier around the two-minute mark before pulling itself back again.

I really like the way the song moves between those different moods instead of staying in one place the whole time.

Keep Her By My Side

A slower and much more dramatic song. To me, it feels like someone trying to convince themselves to stay with the girl and make things work.

I love the way the music rises, falls, suddenly stops and then comes back again. It makes the song feel unpredictable and very different. Something else I noticed throughout the album is how often they hum along with the music. It’s such a small thing, but it makes a lot of the songs really catchy.

Every Day I Lay In Bed

This starts with a dark piano that almost feels creepy. Even once the rest of the song starts building, there’s still something slightly eerie underneath it all, but in a really beautiful way.

Knowing what the song is about makes that darker feeling hit even harder. It’s probably one of the most emotionally straightforward moments on the album, and the piano gives it this haunting, lonely atmosphere.

A really beautiful way to close Cheesy Love Songs.

Overall ‘Cheesy Love Songs’ feels like jumping between different decades without ever completely belonging to one of them. There are obvious touches of the Beatles, Elton John, ABBA, Queen and classic 60s pop, but The Lazy Eyes manage to put enough of their own personality into it that it never feels like they’re simply copying what came before.

What I enjoyed most is how visual the album feels. Almost every song made me picture a scene, whether it was a 60s romcom, two people dancing in a musical, or someone sitting alone with a piano. It’s theatrical, nostalgic, groovy, sometimes strange, sometimes sexy and sometimes genuinely beautiful.

For an album called Cheesy Love Songs, it definitely knows how to lean into the cheese, but in the best possible way.

Listen to the album, here.