Lazy Trail is the new project of songwriter Emma Willer. Named after the street she grew up on, it marks her return to songwriting since her stint in the small but renowned indie band, Slumbers, which consisted of her and her high school best friends from Rochester, NY. She became a member of Boyscott in 2017, further garnering her place in the DIY/indie music stratosphere. Throughout the years she’s harnessed her craft–allowing the songs to form and grow, collect dust, and be made again. Lazy Trail takes you on lush adventures and offbeat musical excursions, guiding you through hazy daydreams of succinct simplicity. These trails venture into their own unique terrain and bluffs of enigmatic views. Sparse thoughts, direct and harrowing, snap beneath your feet like the twigs on the forest floor. Her voice is a unique tonal meld of melancholy and longing, instantly recognizable.

Themes of depression, friendship, growing older, and dissipating relationships all peer out from the shrubbery skirting the trails. There’s the continual stirring of a fruit fly, the dripping of the moon, and the possibilities of eternal friendship. Throughout it all is a hopefulness and longing for simpler days. 

Look out for her debut LP releasing in 2025 via Happen Twice.

-David Alaimo