Nap Eyes

0	LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO
P	Tuesday 8th May, 2018
N	7:30pm

LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO

Tuesday 8th May, 2018

7:30pm

Event information

Upset The Rhythm presents…

NAP EYES
HALEY HEYNDERICKX
Tuesday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 |

NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and Montreal and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are 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 lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following on from their 2014 debut 'Whine of the Mystic' and ;last year’s ‘Thought Rock Fish Scale’ on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes will release their third album ‘I’m Bad Now’ on Jagjaguwar. ‘Im Bad Now’ achieves a new sonic clarity, depth, and range to match the group’s effortless melodies and extraordinary writing. It’s the band’s most transparent and personal set of songs to date, in which singer Nigel Chapman interrogates social, psychological, and spiritual milieus for clues about the elusive nature of knowledge.
https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/

HALEY HEYNDERICKX is an emphatic singer/songwriter from Portland. Through soft acoustic guitar picking and deftly accented trombone sighs, Heynderickx's music immediately recalls folk music of the '60s and '70s mixed with a love of jazz radio. But Heynderickx's singing, her vocals that range from sultry to operatic, belie a tenacity in her soul. Her debut album, named 'I Need to Start a Garden' is due out March 2nd via Mama Bird Recording Co.
https://haleyheynderickx.bandcamp.com/