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August 24th 2016
SONGS LOST AND FOUND
Music nerds love making lists. Greatest pop band to never
have a Top 40 hit? Howzat!'s list would include Melbourne's
Icecream Hands and Sydney's Lazy Susan. The Lazy Susan catalogue
is filled with pop pleasures and treasures. Wistful and
romantic, these are songs to keep you warm on the coldest
winter nights. Lazy Susan broke up in 2012, after 14 years,
four albums and six EPs, but this week sees the release
of not one but two new Lazy Susan albums: Songs Lost, B-Sides
& Unreleased and Songs Lost, Demos & Live. After embarking
on a solo adventure with last year's Family Fold album,
singer Paul Andrews has enjoyed revisiting Lazy Susan. "The
last few months, as we've put this project together, has
just been the greatest and purest pleasure, immersing myself
in such a wonderful experience with some of my closest,
best friends," Paul says. "The first feeling was relief,
that we weren't shit, that I wasn't embarrassed by what
I was listening to and what we'd done. The second feeling,
and following hot on the heels of the first, was happiness.
These were actually bloody good songs and we were a great
band." Memories of past relationships will come flooding
back as you listen to the records, and you'll also wonder:
Why didn't this band conquer the charts? Lazy Susan's new
single, Square One - originally recorded for the band's
swansong, 2010's Places That Made Us - now sounds like a
prophecy, the last words of a band on the verge of breaking
up. "We're at war with ourselves," Paul sings, "we can't
go on like this." But Howzat! is reading way too much into
it. "It's another relationship song," Paul points out. "They
pretty much all are." Lazy Susan burst onto the scene with
their classic debut album, Long Lost, in 2001, which showcased
two razor-sharp songwriters in Paul and guitarist Pete Wilson,
and became a Triple J fave. The future seemed bright. "We
both said the times would suit us," Paul reflects in Square
One. "Now they're here, they want to shoot us." Lazy Susan
didn't find the success they deserved, even though their
B-sides were better than most bands' singles. "I don't miss
anything about it," Paul says, "because I have it with me
all the time in the songs and clips, the memories and the
laughs. They're always with me." And fans will forever treasure
these tunes. As Paul sings in Until You Came Along, "I need
you like a long weekend."
HOT LINE
"I got this perfect girl inside my head. I was kind of thinking
that she could be you" - Lazy Susan, Perfect Girl.
CHART WATCH
Betty Who's cover of Donna Lewis' 1996 hit, I Love You Always
Forever, has a Top 10 debut.
Papercuts ILLY FEATURING VERA BLUE (number five)
I Love You Always Forever BETTY WHO (nine, debut)
In My Blood THE VERONICAS (22)
Say It FLUME (23)
This Girl KUNGS VS COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS (25)
Cheap Thrills SIA (30)
Never Be Like You FLUME (39)
The Amity Affliction score their third number one album.
This Could Be Heartbreak THE AMITY AFFLICTION (number one,
debut)
Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II HUMAN NATURE (three)
Civil Dusk BERNARD FANNING (four)
Ripcord KEITH URBAN (six)
Wings Of The Wild DELTA GOODREM (eight)
Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung HILLTOP
HOODS (11)
Skin FLUME (14)
Glorious Heights MONTAIGNE (17)
50 Best Songs PLAY SCHOOL (18)
Wildflower THE AVALANCHES (21)
The Best Of THE WIGGLES (22)
Famous Friends (Celebrating 50 Years) PLAY SCHOOL (23)
Blue Neighbourhood TROYE SIVAN (24)
A Version Of Now PETER GARRETT (25)
Soul Searchin' JIMMY BARNES (29)
First Light DUSTIN TEBBUTT (32)
Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land HILLSONG UNITED (34)
Zenith ALFIE ARCURI (37)
The Depression Sessions THY ART IS MURDER, THE ACACIA STRAIN,
FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY (38, debut)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Square One LAZY SUSAN
Until You Came Along LAZY SUSAN
Clare LAZY SUSAN
Perfect Girl LAZY SUSAN
Not Mine Anymore LAZY SUSAN
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