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.”
2015 (Year of the Goat) in all its splendor and magnificence is out the door, and 2016 (Year of the Monkey) is right around the corner. Seems only appropriate to reflect on things that were, round-up some additional year end list recognition, and propel us into this next age with some upcoming tour dates.
‘Tis the season for lists; here’s a foretaste of what’s to come. The Weather Station ranks as Uncut’s overall #16, and Editor John Mulvey selects it as his #3, along with James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg at #58 and Promised Land Sound at #95. American Songwriter honors Promised Land Sound at #39 on their list.
Their quietly contemplative sophomore record offers 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. Details on pre-orders and a Nap Eyes discount. “An existentialist indie pop daydream” – SPIN
Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore 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 after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic. But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt.
