Upset The Rhythm presents…
NAP EYES
Wednesday 7 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/p590cef01f9d
NAP
EYES still bring to mind the bucolic ennui of the Silver Jews and
Daniel Johnston’s jittery naïveté, but the sheen and maturity they boast
lends a wide-angle appeal. Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player
collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years
since their last album. ‘The Neon Gate’ reveals classic touchstones (the
uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations,
self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, video games),
but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and
longform improvisational composition (resulting in their most
discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative
and lyric formality, imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted,
as has their understanding of what a song is, what it can do, where it
might go.
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