Name: Whine of the Mystic
Brand: Nap Eyes

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

pob020cd

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-07-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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UPC / Barcode

616892289647

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

Artist

Nap Eyes

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Paradise of Bachelors

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. Nap Eyes' keen sonic signature cruises briskly and beautifully along the dog-eared axes of jangle-jaded Oceanic pop music (The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens), and through the backpages of Peter Perrett (The Only Ones) via all things Lou Reed without ever sounding very much like anything else happening today. Whine of the Mystic articulates the urgency of youthful grace. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. "The very harvest of our youth," indeed!

Whine of the Mystic

Music GB