Nape Neck

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Sonic Masala is beyond excited to bring Nape Neck to Nottingham for what is likely to be one of only a handful of shows the UK will see in 2026! Their 2025 album The Shallowest End was one of the best of last year and flew under some people's radars - I for one cannot wait to see them rip through these in May!

Nape Neck - Nape Neck is a trio from Leeds (UK) playing post-punk that’s simultaneously tangled and taut, danceable and destructed, all while resisting any attempts to be easily situated as the latest addition to a specific geographic and genre-based continuum that stretches back to Gang of Four and Delta 5.

Nape Neck’s knotted rhythms and the intersecting/overlapping vocal shouts from all three band members bring to mind Scissor Girls or Erase Errata, who also drew inspiration from the spiky tension of first wave UK post-punk and translated it through the more wild and free tendencies of DNA-descended downtown art-noise. Clipped morse code rhythms and sharply punctuated lyrical declarations join forces with delirious, snaking guitar and duelling vocals which push against steady bass throb and stark, calculated beats as Nape Neck walk the tightrope between chaos and calm.

Nape Neck is Claire Adams on bass guitar, Bobby Glew on guitar and Kathy Gray on drums. Through extensive touring of Europe in other bands (Beards/Guttersnipe) the members of Nape Neck also bring a deep love for DIY sounds and connection, which shows in their organisation (both compositionally and operationally).

Bandcamp Best of Punk 2022 review:
On this follow-up to 2020’s self-titled release, Leeds trio Nape Neck are more keyed up than ever. On the Lithics-esque opening track, the guitar sounds like it’s being pumped up and then deflated. Nape Neck doesn’t play no wave–influenced post-punk so much as they build cacophonous layers of sound, all with just a bass, guitar, drums, and their own voices. “Warm Air” is built around the bass, which the guitar sometimes wraps itself around, at other times it’s just adding dissonant shards of sound. Claire Adams’s impressive, punchy bass brings to mind Kira Roessler’s daredevil lines on The Process of Weeding Out. On several songs, the band members sing or shout over one another, as on “Kiss Me Boy, I’m Dying”. The result is vital and energizing, a reminder of how far the limits of punk can be stretched.

https://napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-shallowest-end
https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/nape-neck/
https://post-trash.com/news/2025/10/8/nape-neck-the-shallowest-end-album-review

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