Ana Egge

Sat., March 1, 8 p.m., $10, with Colin Gilmore and Charlie Phillips, MilkBoy Coffee, 2 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore, 610-645-5269, milkboycoffee.com.

by M.J. Fine

rock/pop

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"Do you wanna stay in bed all day?" Le Tigre asked on "Much Finer," and the response was an emphatic "Yeah!" Singer-songwriter Ana Egge's fourth album re-examines the question from a number of angles, and each one warrants the affirmative exclamation. On a surface level, Lazy Days (Grace/Parkinsong) allowed Egge to put down her pen and record other people's tunes, and a casual listen reveals appropriately drowsy renditions of such odes to doin' nothin' as "Wastin' Time" (bummed from one-time collaborator Ron Sexsmith), "Wastin' My Time" (which Harry Nilsson never got around to releasing in his lifetime) and "Summer Wastin'" (one of Belle & Sebastian's shortest songs). But for all her praise of sloth, Egge does some heavy lifting; it takes a good deal of effort to make cellos, trumpets and electric guitars sound so effortlessly casual. Her countrified take on the Zombies' "I Could Spend the Day" is a passable promise of a drawn-out session between the sheets, but her warm, clear voice is perfectly suited to digging into the debilitating depression implied in "Much Finer" or the distracted melancholy of the Arcade Fire's "In the Backseat." You don't wanna sleep on this.

Sat., March 1, 8 p.m., $10, with Colin Gilmore and Charlie Phillips, MilkBoy Coffee, 2 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore, 610-645-5269, milkboycoffee.com.