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.
Category: Nap Eyes
It’s Only Life, That’s All (A Nap Eyes Mixtape)
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.
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Nap Eyes
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Earlier this year, Nova Scotia quartet Nap Eyes returned […]
Nap Eyes :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Over and over again on Nap Eyes’ third lp I’m Bad Now, songwriter Nigel Chapman owns himself. In album opener “Every Time the Feeling,” he’s a “space case,” a “loser […]
Nap Eyes :: Thought Rock Fish Scale
Last summer Paradise of Bachelors introduced the Nova Scotia quartet Nap Eyes to a wider audience with the US release of their debut album, Whine of the Mystic. The band has seemingly grown […]