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Nap Eyes: Too Bad

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In their first recordings released since the critically acclaimed long-player I’m Bad Now, Haligonian heroes Nap Eyes sail an autumnal wind of regret and longing. “Have You Seen the Light” exposes an inscape of illumination and revelation all too rare today. Hate begets hate, and light begets light. Too Bad?

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In their first recordings released since the critically acclaimed long-player I’m Bad Now, Haligonian heroes Nap Eyes sail an autumnal wind of regret and longing. “Have You Seen the Light” exposes an inscape of illumination and revelation all too rare today. Hate begets hate, and light begets light. Too Bad?

Have you seen the light?

It’s dawning on you

Do you know what it’s like

To hate things because you’re scared they’ll hate you?

“I’ve Always Known You Care” evinces the affections we do not reveal, as the  fall leaves fall, with echoes of Hackamore Brick in the spindly guitar lines. Nigel ends the song with a promise for the future: “Oh yeah, you can count on me.”

I have always known you care

Maybe it doesn’t seem like it

The leaves are turning in the air

And you know I hate to lose,

I can’t stand to win

Danika Vandersteen once again made the arresting cover art.

Highlights

Tracklist

1. “Have You Seen the Light” 3:55
2. “I’ve Always Known You Care” 4:30

Catalog Number/Release Date

PoB-053 / November 2, 2018

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Acknowledgments

9/10. I’m Bad Now is the real deal… feels as much a modest masterpiece as Spring Hill Fair or Tigermilk. What sets them apart is the fear and trembling in Nigel Chapman’s reedy monotone and guitarist Brad Loughead, who unleashes the full Verlainian screaming bluebird repertoire. 

– Stephen Troussé, Uncut

Masters of subtlety. I’m Bad Now slithers through 11 tracks like a phosphorescent python, its diamond-shaped scales emitting both glimmer and gloom.

– Beca Grimm, NPR Music

The band’s warmest and kindest record yet. Not only does Chapman write with more interrogative passion about his inner life than many songwriters twice his age, but here he expands outward, unpacking religious themes on “White Disciple,” pondering connection to others on “You Like to Joke Around With Me,” and wondering what becomes of all our big ideas on the beatific “Sage.” More than ever before the band’s instrumental interplay feels like its own thing, restrained, considered, and riveting. “Please don’t ask me to throw my work away,” Chapman sings over Salter’s rolling bass on album highlight “Judgement,” and it’s clear why. Nap Eyes is doing the best work of its career with I’m Bad Now.

– Jason Woodbury, Aquarium Drunkard

Possibly the catchiest, most immediate thing they’ve ever done, a deceptively thoughtful rocker that ambles along with a little extra verve.

– Peter Helman, Stereogum

Being bad has never felt so good. The real jamming on I’m Bad Now isn’t happening on the fretboards, but in the lyrics. [Chapman] saves his most bon mots for the astounding “White Disciple,” where the religious undercurrents that have always coursed through Nap Eyes’ music roil into a tsunami. Part Pixies bass rumble, part soulful “Beast of Burden” sway, the song proves to be Chapman’s Mangum opus, a breathless meditation on faith and vice that burrows a winding path from Christianity to Hinduism.

– Stuart Berman, Pitchfork

Triangulates the sweet spot between the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Marquee Moon. If that sounds like your thing, I promise that Nap Eyes will be very your thing.

– Stephen Hyden, Uproxx

In just four short years, Nap Eyes have made much ado about meaninglessness with rock ‘n’ roll songs that shake just offbeat and smart lyrics wrapped in bemused ennui.

– Lars Gotrich, NPR Music

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