Nap Eyes is a Canadian

indie rock Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produc ...

band from Halifax,

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."Nap Eyes: Halifax’s own Velvet Underground"
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'', June 19, 2016. The band consists of vocalist Nigel Chapman, guitarist Brad Loughead, bassist Josh Salter and drummer Seamus Dalton."The music world is waking up to Halifax's Nap Eyes"
'' The Coast'', February 4, 2016.

History

Formed in 2011 when Salter and Dalton joined Chapman's existing solo project The Mighty Northumberland, the band released its debut album ''Whine of the Mystic'' independently in 2014. The album was rereleased in 2015 on You've Changed Records in Canada and Paradise of Bachelors in the United States. The band's second album, ''Thought Rock Fish Scale'', with songs delivered in a slow, psychedelic and meditative style,"Nap Eyes I'm Bad Now"
''Exclaim!'', Cole Firth, Mar 06, 2018 was released in 2016 on both labels. The album was supported by a concert tour of dates in both Canada and the United States,"Nap Eyes escape the modern world through indie-rock reveries"
'' Q'', April 8, 2016. an appearance on

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's '' Q'' and a follow-up tour of select dates in Europe."Halifax's Nap Eyes makes Polaris Music Prize long list"

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, June 16, 2016. In June 2016, the album was named to the longlist for the

2016 Polaris Music Prize The 2016 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 19, 2016 at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario.I'm Bad Now'' (2018) *'' Snapshot of a Beginner'' (2020)

References

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