Nap Eyes Share Live Video of "Stargazer" from new album Thought Rock Fish Scale out now

By Simon Anders

On March 2, 2016

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Share live video for “Stargazer“

Taken from new album Thought Rock Fish Scale

Out now on Paradise of Bachelors

UK Shows Confirmed:

19-21 May – The Great Escape

Sat 21 May – London, Moth Club (with Cian Nugent)

(More TBA)

WATCH NAP EYES’ “STARGAZER” LIVE VIDEO

“It’s easy to imagine Lou Reed’s ghost giving Nap Eyes his gruffly benevolent blessing, impressed by their unvarnished diarizing in lean, art-pop songs that channel his spirit. But along with kitchen-sink detail, there’s real poignancy in the Canadians’ second set. Astutely played, instant charmers.” Uncut

“It’s almost a relief to hear the stoical guitar-bass-drums simplicity of this quartet. Concise, understated alt rock with cryptic, literate lyrics for Go-Betweens/Bill Callahan fans.” MOJO 4*s

“One of the most enjoyable and insightful albums released this year so far.” Drowned in Sound 8/10

“Thought Rock Fish Scale is an album brimming with passion and protest. It finds confidence in humility, power in relaxation. Its lethargy feels like an act of defiance against the hyper-speed pace of modern life.” Pitchfork

Nap Eyes have shared an excellent new live video for Thought Rock Fish Scale sleeper hit “Stargazer” following the release of their new album (out now on Paradise of Bachelors). The eight songs on Thought Rock Fish Scale are deceptively simple and gentle, almost radical in their purity of intent and populist subject matter—they are, after all, minimalist rock and roll ruminations on family, friends, work, faith, feelings. But Nigel Chapman’s plainspoken poetry, divested largely of description and rhetoric, renders them enigmatic, oracular, allegorical. So in “Stargazer,” ennui and indecision are distilled to a base need “to be clean and try to control my body / ’Cause nobody else going to.” Indeed, Nap Eyes make soul music, in the sense that their music describes, from a position of uneasy humility, the often mundane maintenance of the fragile human soul.

Nap Eyes will be playing at The Great Escape in Brighton 19-21 May and will be touring UK/Europe with Cian Nugent, including a London show on Saturday 21 May at Moth Club (Upset the Rhythm).

The band are heading out for a US tour in March including these SXSW dates:

Wed. Mar. 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW

Thu. Mar. 17 – Austin, TX @ Urban Outfitters Live – Space 24Twenty (SXSW)

Thu. Mar. 17 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda (Secretly Canadian + friends SXSW Showcase)

Fri. Mar. 18 – Austin, TX @ Austin Convention Center (SXSW Flatstock Stage)

“Mixer” stream