Category: Nap Eyes

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Nap Eyes

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Nova Scotian quartet Nap Eyes have the right stuff: eclectic and clattering rock & roll moves, a distinct zone, and best of all, sly and quixotic lyrics. On their latest, 2024’s The Neon Gate, songwriter Nigel Chapman manages to pull in nods to Nintendo 64 games, Russian poets, French filmmaker Chris Marker, and Goo Goo Dolls megahits, resulting in a work that feels real and lived in in a way that so many of their indie rock contemporaries fail to achieve. For their second Lagniappe Session, they cover Kathy Heideman and The Tragically Hip.

Nap Eyes :: The Neon Gate

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Arriving after a four-year gap, the latest album from the acerbic Canadian indie rock band reveals a group in a state of graceful turmoil and artistic ferment. A work of stoned eschatology involving Yeats, Pushkin and a jet-ski-racing game for the N64, The Neon Gate finds Nap Eyes scattered but not disenchanted, committed to finding new ways to sound exactly like themselves.

Nap Eyes :: Passageway

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Where do Nintendo 64 games, Russian poets, French filmmaker Chris Marker, and references to Goo Goo Dolls megahits collide? In the lyrics of The Neon Gate, the forthcoming album from Nova Scotian quartet Nap Eyes. Due out October 18th from the ever-reliable Paradise of Bachelors, the new album finds Nap Eyes expanding and taking new form.

It’s Only Life, That’s All (A Nap Eyes Mixtape)

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With his “It’s Only Life, That’s All” playlist, Nap Eyes guitarist Brad Loughead created a mix “mainly as a way to occupy myself, [to] get lost in beautiful music and turn my brain off.” It encompasses familiar themes—”of love, mortality, troubled times…’ya know, the light stuff,” but like Nap Eyes’ fourth lp, Snapshot of a Beginner, it achieves a powerful effect by just easing on by.