Nap Eyes announce first album in four years, The Neon Gate

Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth album follows, Snapshot of a Beginner. "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," says Nigel Chapman on first single "Passageway".

"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."