A Guide To Lazy Habits – Part One (‘Lazy Habits’)
If you got to this post via a self help-oriented Google search, and think you might be in the wrong place, hold on a second. This guide may not help you stop smoking, quit drinking, or persuade you to dump that no-good long term partner who won’t stop cheating on you, but it will improve your quality of life significantly. The Lazy Habits we’re looking at here are a London-based hip-hop band with talent to burn – and here, in the first part of a two-part guide to their world, your ears are going to meet the soundwaves kept captive on their debut album. In Part 2, we’ll be checking out their latest release, a remixed version of Lazy Habits’ eponymous debut featuring a wealth of special guests. Trust me – if slick musicianship and catchy songs are your thing, you’re going to get along very well.
While preparing to review Lazy Habits’ debut, I decided to put this album to the ultimate urban-music quality test. Rather than sitting quietly with headphones on, I kept Lazy Habits in my ears while I spent a day exploring central London – and it passed said ultra-scientific, in-no-way-completely-subjective test with flying colours. Read more…
Time and patience are beautiful things. Without time, you’re screwed: You’ll wind up late for everything, faced with angry people at every turn, and you won’t get anything done. Without patience, you won’t use the time you do have effectively, squandering it instead on the pursuit of instant gratification and doing nothing of any lasting usefulness.
This has to be the dirtiest album I’ve heard in a long time. The most recent instrumental offerings collected in TMMP’s archives have been markedly slicker than Spooky Action (