Lazer Owl’s Set Fire To The Night slides its way into my mind with a casual over-familiarity that reminds me of drinking with new-found friends-of-friends at the end of lost nights… It feels easy, and way more worn-in than it should.
Lazer Owl is a musical alter-ego of Italian musician and songwriter Anthony Lazaro, which when embodied frees him from his acoustic skin into a multicoloured synthetic identity.
Lazaro’s vocals evoke a feeling I can only describe as low-slung, embodying a unfussiness that instantly makes him sound cool. I’ve always been a sucker for slacker rock, a sound epitomised by Pavement, a band that often sounded like if they were any more laissez faire they would be asleep. On Set Fire To The Night, Lazer Owl somehow manages to apply that aesthetic to disco, and gosh is that my jam. I will follow you anywhere Lazer Owl, my lovely Italian mystery, as you lazily point the way to some mystic heavenly rave in a distant forest. Sure, let’s set fire to the night, but let me just pull a stretch and slip on a comfortable sweater first.