Led by a brilliant emerging songwriter and singer called Nigel Chapman, this lot come from Nova Scotia and blew everyone away at SXSW . If you like North American punk poets with a bit of heart to what they do, then don’t miss. From the album Nap Eyes -“Thought Rock Fish Scale”
Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shores of Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine . But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt.
For fans of The Only Ones/England’s Glory, The Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed. With lyrics, color inner sleeve, and download code.
“Nap Eyes moves from psych-riffs to astrophysicists; from Rubaiyatic poetry to punctuated bass, in easy fluid motions. Chapman’s calm, steady voice can be as pained as Bob Dylan’s, and his lyrics can be just as profound.” –
Released February 5th, 2016
The Fat Angel Sings 