Nap Eyes - The Neon GateAfter 3 years of silence, the Canadian band Nap Eyes have returned with their own meditations on the monstrous and familiar (or the monstrously familiar). The Neon Gate, their metamorphic 5th long player, collects a cache of 9 fascinating reveries recorded over the 4 years since their last album, Snapshot of a Beginner (5 of which were released episodically throughout the spring and summer of 2024). I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness

just ask Jazzy Jeff

" Around this time

She has collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Following his work on 2011’s Days

Still a fan to this day

pedal and icy stare are Working Men’s Club

One of the last songs written for the album

But no-one has really come close to replicating their awesome output and utterly singular aesthetic

” Will Hodgkinson

knocking out songs on Withycombe’s four-track

Reviews of Thirlwall’s previous releases:‘flawless pop songs

as their music has always straddled the line of light and darkness