Thanks to our friends at Stereogum for offering an album stream premiere of Nap Eyes’ Whine of the Mystic, a record that continues to blow minds, including ours, with its gnomic lyrics and crystalline melodies. It’s a highly recommended tonic for nursing your Canada Day hangover or gearing up for your Fourth of July party.
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.
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.
