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NAP EYES, after eight years and four albums deep, find their artistic arc tracing a line alongside frontman Nigel Chapman's daily tai chi practice. Those first years and albums are the cold mornings in the park: the measured movements, the joint aches, the self-doubt. With each new release, an incremental and invigorating step forward. And with the end of each album and tour, a return to the beginner's practice. And now, 'Snapshot of a Beginner', Nap Eyes's boldest, most concentrated and most hi-fi album to date, a study of that repeated return and all that it can teach you. The music still brings to mind the bucolic ennui of the Silver Jews and Daniel Johnston's jittery naïveté. But the new sheen and maturity also now brings to mind the wide-angle appeal of The Jayhawks and the addictive brightness of Green Day's Kerplunk!. Which brings us to the new album's lead single, Mark Zuckerberg. Against crunchy and echo-laden guitars seasoned with pedal steel, Chapman begins by inquiring, Is Mark Zuckerberg a ghost? Maybe, maybe/ Where are his hands and why don't you ever see them in public? By the end, it's morphed into a Belle And Sebastian song and Chapman has found his way to a mantra: Transcendence is all around us. The journey from point A to point B is both short and rewarding. 'Snapshot of a Beginner' is released by Jagjaguwar on March 27th!

https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/

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Old Trades Hall, Valette Street,

Hackney,

Greater London,

England,

E9 6NU.