Name: Thought Rock Fish Scale
Brand: Nap Eyes

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-02-04

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616892312147

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Nap Eyes

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Paradise of Bachelors

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. Like all of their recordings to date, the album is framed by a set of severe self-imposed strictures: a mere four days to capture as many songs as possible completely live, with no overdubs, to a temperamental old TEAC four-track 1/4" tape recorder. The result is a document pristine in its intentional imperfections. After the dark, drunken night of 'Whine of the Mystic' (recorded nocturnally in Montreal), 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' brings blinding sunlight and blue horizon to these elemental stories of water, fire, and spirit. Compared with its predecessor, this album is far less concerned with the effects of alcohol—excepting "Click Clack," with its admission that "Sometimes, drinking, I feel so happy but then / I can't remember why ... Sometimes, drinking, I don't know my best friend for my best friend"—and more concerned with negotiating the mornings after, all the hungover or otherwise creaky, tentative new mornings of a life assembled from discrete days. Musically, a new delicacy and tautness manifest here as well, a patient willingness to wait; Josh Salter (bass), Seamus Dalton (drums), and Brad Loughead (lead guitar) exhibit consummate restraint. Sonic touchstones remain similar—The Go-Betweens (particularly Robert Forster's melancholic bite). 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' deploys the language of anxiety and self-reflection as a sort of symbolic vernacular. 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.... For fans of The Only Ones/England's Glory, The Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed. LP With lyrics, color inner sleeve, and download code.

Thought Rock Fish Scale

Music GB