Canadian indie rockers Nap Eyes have announced a new album called The Neon Gate. The follow-up to 2020’s Snapshot of a Beginner is slated to arrive on October 18 through Paradise of Bachelors and Paper Bag Records. It includes the early singles ‘Feline Race Wave’, ‘Ice Grass Underpass’, and ‘Demons’, and a new track, ‘Passageway’, is out today. Check it out below.
Speaking about ‘Passageway’, bandleader Nigel Chapman said: “I had the last verse of this song written for a long time, along with a bunch of earlier verses that I didn’t like as much that I eventually discarded. One quiet day when I was not doing too much of anything, I started to come up with the lyrics of the earlier verses — just in my head without an instrument or speaking them out loud, which is unusual for me. So the song was generated by this out-of-the-ordinary writing method, but I think this resulted in a song that is pretty different from anything else I’ve written to date.”
The Neon Gate Cover Artwork:
The Neon Gate Tracklist:
1. Eight Tired Starlings
2. Dark Mystery Enigma Bird
3. Demons
4. Feline Wave Race
5. Tangent Dissolve
6. Ice Grass Underpass
7. Passageway
8. I See Phantoms of Hatred and the Heart’s Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness
9. Isolation
