NAP EYES ≋ Köln

Name: NAP EYES ≋ Köln
Start: 2025-05-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Bumann & SOHN

Schedule

Tue, 20 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bumann & SOHN | Cologne, NW

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NAP EYES
Dienstag 20. Mai 2025
BUMANN & SOHN, Köln
Einlass 19:00, Beginn 20:00
Tickets: http://popanz.ticket.io
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?” – Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1983)
When we last heard from Nap Eyes, in May 2021, in the wake of their fourth full-length record, Snapshot of a Beginner (PoB-058), released in March 2020 at the uncertain brink of the COVID-19 pandemic—their truncated tour with Destroyer was the final concert some of us saw for a year or longer—they were sharing covers by Green Day and Bonnie Raitt, on an EP plainly titled When I Come Around. It was an earthbound exercise, perhaps, in vigorous
nostalgia as antidote to the exhaustion of awaiting an unusually unknowable future. Then, silence—circumstantial but also self-imposed, unvowed but total.
Now, exactly three years later to the day, they’re back with two songs, old and new, that bookend the band’s history, monuments, or mnemonic mile markers, to fifteen years of singular songmaking. It is no coincidence that both songs are themselves concerned with
marking, attenuating, and collapsing time.
There are classic Nap Eyes touchstones here—the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory descriptions of landscape and weather, self-interrogating soliloquies, technological anxiety, apertures of surreality, video games—but also the sense,
intentionally and unabashedly exhibited in the contrast, both sonic and lyrical, between the two specimens, 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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