Artist Highlight: Lazy Loners

Lazy Loners’ “Rifter” is the kind of song that doesn’t just fill a room, it fills a memory. From its opening notes to its final chords, the track trickles in with nostalgia, like flipping through faded photos. It’s wistful, weightless, and quietly profound.

Lyrically, “Rifter” has an air or reality detachment. Lines like “I want to see the world each night I close my eyes” and “I want everything in time by my design” reveal a narrator deeply stuck in their own head, yearning for a life that feels within reach, but only in dreams. 

It continues with “Coasting by creating fake pressure,” a tummy turner for anyone who’s ever felt like they were drifting through life while pretending it all meant more than it did. The song critiques the false currency of routine and surface-level achievement, “blank transactions, passive fake dollars,” exposing how hollow progress can feel.

What makes “Rifter” hit hardest isn’t just its words, it’s the way they pair with the music. Lazy Loners, a soft-rock band out of Provo, Utah, channel the warm haze of early 2010s rock-pop. The guitars are clean but wistful, the percussion restrained, and the overall mood feels suspended in amber.

There’s a familiar sweetness to them, the emotional bigness of small experiences. It’s a song that captures being 22 and aimless, feeling like everything you do is both fleeting and forever. “I want you each night / And I want everything in time” sums up that paradox perfectly: the craving for intimacy, the hunger for meaning, and the strange peace of not yet needing answers.

“Rifter” isn’t flashy. It offers something more valuable: a space to remember how it felt to be in between.

⁠Listen below:

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/7JU4B0xZtXtK5MNgknHdzD?si=81c9b0a82b06495e

Becks
Becks is a music marketer focusing on helping musicians grow their audience and create new fans. Get in touch with Becks for Social Media Management, Outreach Campaigns and Reviews & Interviews.
https://becksmarketer.co.uk/