Upset The
Rhythm presents...
NAP EYES
Monday 7
November
The Lexington,
96-98 Pentonville
Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £9 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/367833
NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia
and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain.
Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling
and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry
firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s
magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much.
In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic
concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles
with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic
rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order;
solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small;
and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.
It’s the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent
counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following
last year’s reissue of their 2014 debut ‘Whine of the Mystic’ on
Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled
‘Thought Rock Fish Scale’ earlier this year.
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