NAP EYES (indie-rock, can) + NAIVE SET (indie-pop, nl)

Name: NAP EYES (indie-rock, can) + NAIVE SET (indie-pop, nl)
Start: 2025-05-22T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Schokoladen

Schedule

Thu, 22 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Schokoladen | Berlin, BE

puschen & little league shows prsnt:
NAP EYES / indie-rock, can
napeyes.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/napeyes
& NAIVE SET / indie-pop, nl
naiveset.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/naiveset
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3gbb8hc
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NAP EYES’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, video games), but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and longform improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality (including adaptations of thorny poems by Alexander Pushkin and W. B. Yeats), 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.
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NAIVE SET is an Amsterdam-based band that, for more than 10-years, has taken a loose approach to detailed guitar pop, making songs both easy on the ears and pleasing on repeat. In their three previous full-lengths and one EP, the band weaved together hazy and wavy with bright and shiny, channeling guitar-pop classics without being defined by them.

Dubbed “smart, highly catchy indiepop,” by VPRO 3voor12 and “classic-indie artisans” by MOJO, Naive Set is back in 2024, releasing stellar new material (compared to “silver crystal” by the Volkskrant) with the Amsterdam-based label AT EASE. Their full length, In Air Quotes, is out October 18th.

Recorded at Schenk Studio, Amsterdam, then mixed in Melbourne by Mikey Young, the Australian producer of bands like Dick Diver, Total Control, and Twerps.

RIYL: Lewsberg, Nap Eyes, Cate le Bon, Elvis Costello, The Feelies, Chad VanGaalen, A. Savage, Ultimate Painting