'The Neon Gate'

Nap Eyes is set to return with their highly anticipated album, The Neon Gate, coming this October 18th, 2024 through Paper Bag Records. Don’t miss the chance to pre-order their fifth record on black vinyl and be among the first to experience their latest sonic journey!

Nap Eyes’ fifth album, The Neon Gate, is a collection of nine intriguing songs crafted over the past four years. This record blends familiar themes like philosophical reflections and surreal imagery with fresh, experimental elements such as nonlinear structures, extended improvisation, and video game inspiration. The upcoming release explores philosophical storytelling and surreal lyrical depth, with both original songwriting and featuring adaptations of poems by Alexander Pushkin and W. B. Yeats. Within The Neon Gate Nap Eyes shows how they’ve grown and redefined their musical style, offering a fresh take on what a song can be.

Tracklisting:

1. Eight Tired Starlings
2. Dark Mystery Enigma Birds
3. Demons
4. Feline Wave Race
5. Tangent Dissolve 
6. Ice Grass Underpass
7. Passageway
8. I See the Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
9. Isolation
   
   
   Catalogue No: PAPER158
   Release Date: October 18, 2024