Hailing from Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes is the greatest band you’ve never heard, and Whine of the Mystic is their first full-length album, a brilliant small-batch brew of crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Pre-orders now, and get an immediate download of the song “Dark Creedence,” as premiered today by Stereogum.
Today is a good day. Today we’re able to release two beautiful documents of deeply personal, movingly articulated North American songwriting: The Weather Station’s Loyalty and Kenny Knight’s Crossroads, which also happen to be our first releases with our supremely supportive new distributor Secretly Canadian Distribution. This is why we do what we do.
Stream The Weather Station’s gorgeous album Loyalty via The NY Times and hear our reissue of Kenny Knight’s 1980 country-rock masterpiece Crossroads via Stereogum, a week before their May 12 release. Both records are available for purchase if you like what you hear. (You will like what you hear.) Pitchfork reviewed Loyalty, calling it “a 40-minute glimpse into a secret world.”
Steve Gunn and the Way Out Band have begun their May mini-tour supporting the great Wilco, which will be followed by a long European tour through August. Plus, Jake Xerxes Fussell plays Union Pool on May 6 (check out some videos of him performing with pal and producer William Tyler.)
The Weather Station will be hitting the road in Canada and the United States this Spring and Summer, in both solo and full band incarnations. Tamara is one of the most transfixing performers we know. Don’t miss it!
The Line of Best Fit has premiered “Tapes,” one of our sentimental favorites on The Weather Station’s Loyalty: “A moving, melancholic though magnificent piece of work.” Many thanks also to Uncut for their beautiful lead review of Loyalty: “There are many wise, deceptively simple insights on this wonderful album.”
Many thanks to The Fader for premiering “Shy Women,” another stunning song from Loyalty, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, which The Fader calls “the best folk album of the year.” Stream and pre-order herein. Also, TWS has just announced that they’ll be playing this year’s Pickathon Festival.
Nova Scotia’s Nap Eyes is the greatest band you’ve never heard, and Whine of the Mystic is their first full-length album, a brilliant small-batch brew of crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, it’s 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 songs about insomnia and drinking too much.
Many thanks to Stereogum for premiering “Whiskey” from our upcoming reissue of Kenny Knight’s Crossroads, one of our very favorite songs on an album of indelible songs. This jittery head-nodder touches on some heavy darkness: an alcoholic’s lament about childhood drinking, drunk driving, a constant fear of death, and almost shitting your pants (seriously, it’s dark.)
Due to popular demand, our PoB High Roller t-shirts are back in stock and ready to ship. We’re also thrilled to announce that, effective March 31, Paradise of Bachelors will be distributed exclusively worldwide by the fine folks at Secretly Canadian Distribution. Pre-orders are still rolling for our two May 12 releases–our first in collaboration with SCD–The Weather Station’s Loyalty and Kenny Knight’s Crossroads.
