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NAP EYES + ELIZA NIEMI
May 7, 2025 @ 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
NAP EYES
ELIZA NIEMI
Wednesday 7 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/p590cef01f9d
NAP EYES still bring to mind the bucolic ennui of the Silver Jews and Daniel Johnston’s jittery naïveté, but the sheen and maturity they boast lend a wide-angle appeal. Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since their last album. ‘The Neon Gate’ reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, and video games) but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and long-form improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality, imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted, as has their understanding of what a song is, what it can do, where it might go.
https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/
ELIZA NIEMI is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter currently based in Toronto. On her new album Progress Bakery (out now on Tin Angel), Eliza knows to leave some questions alone—to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. She playfully slip-slides through words, sounds, and images, delighting in surprise, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water, touching down briefly with uncommon grace.
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