Nap Eyes

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.

"he entire album was recorded without overdubs so the band could play together at the same time, and the immediacy of the recording process allows Chapman to feel distinctly part of a collective, instead of a solitary songwriter. Together, they craft Whine Of The Mystic into a thoughtful, complicated, and knotted debut that manages to feel grounded even as it explores the stars." - Stereogum

"Nigel Chapman is one of those hyper-literate punkish preachers (think Jonathan Richman or Mark E. Smith) — a whip-smart, maybe generational sort of poet who doesn't so much intone a melody as beam high-concentrate pathos" Chart Attack

"Nap Eyes' Whine of the Mystic is a ragged splendour, one of the best things in ages. A band from Halifax with a sound like young caterpillar and old silk, like the Velvet Underground and Electrelane and Destroyer and Guided by Voices. Like liking a drink you know isn't good for you; that's good for you, that's good for you, that you know isn't good for you." - Said the Gramophone