If you require a mind-expanding tonic to our national spell of ignorant, truculent insanity, the new Mind Over Mirrors album Undying Color is available today in your favorite record shops and online merchants, digital and physical alike. Listen, read critical acclaim for the album, learn about Secretly Group’s Our First 100 Days Project, and catch up on current and upcoming PoB tours.
News about the release show for Nathan Bowles’ Whole & Cloven at the Center for the Study of the American South, as well as PoB artists at the Hopscotch Music Festival, the Southern Accent exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, and tour date updates from Hiss Golden Messenger, Itasca, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nap Eyes, Promised Land Sound, Steve Gunn, and Terry Allen.
Brooklyn Vegan is premiering the hilarious new video for Nap Eyes’ “Click Clack” from Thought Rock Fish Scale, which features some Weird Science meets Paul McCarthy meets the Muppets meets Vincent Price vibes. Puppets enhanced by science! Catch the Polaris Music Prize-nominated band on tour with Guided by Voices, Steve Gunn, and Big Thief.
We’re thrilled to be releasing one of our favorite records of all time today, Terry Allen’s 1975 masterpiece Juarez. Happy release day, and a deep thank you, to Terry. In celebration, we’re proud to present the Terry Allen Tamale T-Shirt—as far as we know the only item of its kind—as well as a sale on some older reissues.
As we bask in the new Spring and look ahead to the oncoming Summer, we’d like call your attention to the many chances you’ll have to see some of our artist’s road-dogging it through a town near you. We’d also like to take a moment to extend our warmest thanks to The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) for nominating us as 2016 Label of the Year. We’re blushing.
The behemoth known as SXSW is almost upon us, and several PoB artists will be joining the melee, including rare appearances by Lavender Country, both live onstage (with some special guests sitting in) and at festival world premiere screenings of the new documentary short These C*cksucking Tears. The Weather Station and Nap Eyes will also each be playing several shows.
Happy release day to Nap Eyes! The reviews of Thought Rock Fish Scale are coming in, and they are uniformly glowing, including a thoughtful 8.0 review from Pitchfork, a 4/5 from MOJO, a 4/5 from The Irish Times, and an 8/10 from Drowned in Sound. “Brimming with passion and protest… Let this record be the first step in your rehabilitation from information overload,” writes Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman.
In advance of its February 5 release, The FADER is premiering Nap Eyes’ Thought Rock Fish Scale: “The year’s first classic indie rock album. For my money, Nap Eyes are one of the best rock bands in business today, handily spanning the space between Bob Dylan and The Microphones. Nigel Chapman’s songwriting grips like the best of them. A timeless release, already.”
Nap Eyes have announced a spring headline tour in support of their new album Thought Rock Fish Scale, which is out February 5th. Coinciding with this announcement is the release of the album’s centerpiece, “Lion In Chains.” The almost seven-minute long epic is one of several movingly ineffable moments on the album that gathers loved ones and legacies at a cautious if affectionate distance, folding them into carefully articulated but centerless koans.
Nap Eyes’ new album Thought Rock Fish Scale, is just a month away from release on February 5th. The band shared opening track “Mixer” late last year and are following it up today with “Roll It” via The FADER, who call Nigel Chapman “the kind of preternaturally smart lyricist who inspires comparison to Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Van Morrison, and the many odd musicians who fall between.”
