The Lazy Eyes

After enjoying breakout success with their self-produced 2022 debut, the Sydney psych quartet hit a wall while recording the follow-up. The solution? To strip everything away to the bare essentials.

With our weekly updated playlist, Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear. Here are our picks released this week, July 3, 2026.

The highlights from Wet Leg’s headline show at UNSW Roundhouse, Sydney.

The highlights from Djo’s headline show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney.

"In an era of missing so much, this was a perfect way to give hope for the future and, in turn, provide one of the year’s live music highlights."

No longer the mysterious band at the bottom of the Laneway Festival poster, with the Sydney group releasing their first track today..