Music of the Day: Lazy Giants – Sticky Sun

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's a stubborn cliché because there's truth in it.Nearly 45 years after assembling in San Francisco's fertile punk underground, the Toiling Midgets have turned into — what else? — Lazy Giants. The original name, intended without malice or prejudice, hailed from a reality TV show circa 1979, in which an interviewer asked a pair of little-person tycoons about the secret to their success. The industrious twins' proud response became the moniker for a brooding, predominantly instrumental band uniting members of Bay Area agitators Negative Trend and the Sleepers. Lineup shuffles, drug problems, dissolutions, recoveries, reboots, deaths, and critically lauded albums for big-deal labels such as Rough Trade and Matador would follow.