London-based songwriter Lazy Day returns with new single ‘Bright Yellow’.
The musician’s potent voice made their early work highly sought after, sitting in a pop-edged indie vein. Taking time out – three years, in fact – to focus on academia, Lazy Day (real name Tilly Scantlebury) studied a PhD in Queer American Art.
Out now, new single ‘Bright Yellow’ finds Lazy Day turning the page, and fully embracing their love of pop. An exquisite piece of songwriting, the melodies are finessed, truly popping as each note fizzles out of the stereo.
Instantly infectious, ‘Bright Yellow’ merges their work in queer research with some of their finest pop ideas yet. Lazy Day comments…
“My research was focussed on queer representation in contemporary art. Catherine Opie’s photographic portrait series Being and Having from 1991 was the work that sparked ‘Bright Yellow’. It’s made up of the faces of 13 queer people, captured like comical mugshots against a bright yellow background: “Kings like them had never been seen.” At its very best, art can change the way that we see and think and live, acting like a window into another world — which is how I want my music and this song to feel as well.”
Freshly signed to tastemaker imprint Brace Yourself Records, you can catch Lazy Day supporting Honeyblood this spring, including London venue Oslo on May 23rd.
Check out ‘Bright Yellow’ below.
