The Lazy Eyes have just released new single ‘How Does It Feel To Be In Love?’
Released as the latest preview of forthcoming second album Cheesy Love Songs, due August 21 via AWAL, the track strips away some of the band’s more cosmic excess in favour of something warmer and more exposed. Built around bright piano lines and sweeping arrangements indebted as much to Brian Wilson as early-2000s arena-pop romanticism, the song asks a deceptively simple question and never quite pretends to answer it.
Songwriter Itay Shachar describes the track as one of the emotional anchors of the record, and you can hear why. The lyrics avoid grand declarations, instead circling uncertainty, memory and longing with a kind of awkward honesty that gives the song its weight. “Sometimes I don’t know how it feels to be in love,” he admits, and that ambiguity ends up carrying more emotional truth than certainty ever could.
The release continues a deliberate recalibration for the Sydney group following their return earlier this year with ‘The One Who Got Away’, their first new music in four years. Rather than trying to outdo the widescreen psych-rock of their debut, Cheesy Love Songs appears more interested in reduction and clarity. The band have described the album as a “back-to-basics” project, reassessing who they are in 2026 rather than simply expanding outward for the sake of it.
That shift doesn’t mean abandoning ambition. If anything, it highlights the group’s growing confidence as songwriters. Across the material released so far, The Lazy Eyes sound increasingly comfortable allowing space, melody and sentiment to carry songs without burying everything beneath layers of technicality. The result feels less performative and more human.
Named after one of the first songs the band ever released, Cheesy Love Songs positions itself as both homage and reinvention, drawing on classic pop songwriting while refusing to treat emotion with irony. In lesser hands, that title could feel like a joke. Here, it lands more like a mission statement.
Stream it HERE.
