Lazy Wizard – Lunatic Soup. "If you love great songcraft, love to wig out or rock hard, Lazy Wizard are easily your fave new band!!!"

Lazy Wizard – Lunatic Soup (self-released)

Melbourne trio, formed in 2025: Steve on drums, Jared on bass, Jau on guitar, tracked live at Incubator Studios. You may not have heard much press about them-but trust me-this is a ripping, rocking three-piece of sheer power. Think groovy, funky sludge that is equally doom-focused as it is embedded in wild psych rock.

Five deep and epic instrumentals, just over thirty minutes, built around a dystopian story: “Agenda 65+”, a law stripping rights from anyone over 65 who can’t pay. The band wrote it up as an interview with an old man called Nigel, who has rescued a dog named Pacols and is living with the consequences. Track titles follow the story, and at 9:19 “Chester” is the one that runs long.

Genres implicated in such tags range from stoner doom and heavy psych to funk and garage rock, which is a lot of ground for a trio this new. They’ve also stuck a disclaimer on it saying it’s fiction and hates no one. It’s a concept record without a vocalist, so the music has to carry the plot.