We are not completely new to Lazywall. It’s been a long time though: the last we featured them was last year, when we wrote about ‘Dem 3la Dem’, an eclectic piece drenched in Arabic influences and evocative rock stylings. On the Moroccan band side, a lot has happened this year. They have released two long albums – ‘Lazywall’ and ‘B-Sides’ and have subsequently grown their audience a fair bit. Now, the group shares ‘L3ado Lbared’, a piece that’s as hypnotising and fierce as one would expect.
A dynamic, powerful single, the track contains Lazywall’s signature eclecticism, something that usually takes shape when alternating alt-rock sections to more traditional arab-flavoured ones – this creates a stark contrast, a tension and release mechanism that positively informs the Casablanca-based group’s artistic output. Their vocals are not far off from Serj Tankian’s tone, for reference.
Like Tankian, Lazywall find activism valuable and needed, packing their lyricism with topics such as climate change, social injustices and the gloomy realities we live in. ‘L3ado Lbared’ embarks on a deep critique towards social media and the ‘addiction’ many of us developed towards them. As the band explain: “They say the cure to addiction is socialising. We invented social networks. Now we are addicted to the cure.”
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