THE LAZY STARS, "Light of Day EP" (myspace.com/thelazystarspage): Dave Hawkins can stre-e-e-tch a vowel with the very best of 'em.

"All I want is you-u-u-u-u," The Lazy Stars frontman sings on "She
Knows Everything," a tempestuous, symphonic-sounding torch song on
which Hawkins gradually works himself into a lovelorn lather.

It's an equally sentimental and seductive tune, one directly
reflective of this band's dusky, debonair repertoire: lots of texture,
melodrama and skybound melodies.

The Lazy Stars songs are suggestive of late nights and star-crossed
lovers, and their latest EP sees them further refining their craft,
with the slashing, fuzzed out guitar wallop and soaring synth lines of
"Light of Day" and the ruminative hip shake of "Pictures/Photographs."

At three songs, it's over before you know it -- kind of like some of the relationships about which Hawkins sings