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Jul 30, 2024 By Marina Malin

Nap Eyes have officially announced their new album, The Neon Gate, and shared their new single “Passageway.” The Neon Gate will be released on October 18 via Paradise of Bachelors and Paper Bag. Listen to “Passageway” below and also find the cover art for The Neon Gate.

“Passageway” follows the previously released tracks “Demons,” “Ice Grass Underpass,” and “Feline Wave Race.”

Nap Eyes is made up of Nigel Chapman (vocals, guitars, synths, drum programming), Brad Loughead (guitars, bass, synths, drum programming), Josh Salter (bass, guitars, synths), and Seamus Dalton (drums, guitars, synth).

Of the new track, Chapman said this in a press release: “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. Eventually 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. During the live tracking at our friend René Wilson’s home and studio, Brad was playing acoustic guitar in the stairwell, Josh and Seamus were playing in the main room, while I sang in an adjacent bedroom.”

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