life is too short to listen to old music
Nap Eyes
country: Canada
genre: Alternative
styles: Alternative Country, Freak Folk, Garage Psych, Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Neo-Psychedelic
ABOUT THIS BAND
Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, video games), but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and longform improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality (including adaptations of thorny poems by Alexander Pushkin and W. B. Yeats), imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted, as has their understanding of what a song is, what it can do, where it might go. (Including color inner sleeve with lyrics.)
Masters of subtlety. – NPR
Snapshot of a Beginner feels as much a modest masterpiece as [The Go-Betweens’] Spring Hill Fair or [Belle and Sebastian’s] Tigermilk. What sets them apart is the fear and trembling. – Uncut
One of the most fascinating songwriters we have today. – Newsweek
Source [Spotify]Releases
LP
The Neon Gate
out on October 18, 2024
via Paradise of Bachelors
Single
Dark Mystery Enigma Bird
out on October 02, 2024
via Paradise of Bachelors
Single
Passageway
out on July 30, 2024
via Paradise of Bachelors
Single
Demons
out on June 13, 2024
via Paradise of Bachelors
Single
Feline Wave Race
out on May 14, 2024
via Paradise of Bachelors
Single
When I Come Around
out on May 14, 2021
via Jagjaguwar
EP
When I Come Around
out on May 14, 2021
via Jagjaguwar
Single
Snake Oil b-w Child's Romance
out on August 27, 2020
via Jagjaguwar
Videos
I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness (Official Video)
November 19, 2024
Dark Mystery Enigma Bird (Official Video)
October 02, 2024
– Demons (Official Visual)
June 13, 2024
– When I Come Around (Official Video)
May 05, 2021
Concerts
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