{"product_id":"nap-eyes-snapshot-of-a-beginner","title":"Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one's for the procrastinators and the slow learners. This one's for the bungled and the botched, for the fumbled and humbled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one's for the late bloomers, and ultimately, Nap Eyes latest full length Snapshot of a Beginner is proof that sometimes, the late bloomers bloom brightest. Eight years and four albums into it, the artistic arc of Nap Eyes finds itself tracing a line alongside frontman Nigel Chapman's daily tai chi practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose first years and albums are the cold mornings in the park: the measured movements, the joint aches, the self-doubt. With each new release, an incremental and invigorating step forward. And with the end of each album and tour, a return to the beginner's practice. And now, Snapshot of a Beginner, Nap Eyes's boldest, most concentrated and most hi-fi album to date, a study of that repeated return and all that it can teach you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost all the songs of Nap Eyes are whittled into their final form from Chapman's unspooling, 20-minute voice-and-guitar free-writing sessions. Each member - drummer Seamus Dalton; bassist Josh Salter or guitarist Brad Loughead - then plays a crucial role in song development, composing around the idiosyncratic structures and directing the overall sound and feel of the songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil now, that final song construction and recording has been mostly done live in a room. But for Snapshot of a Beginner, the band went to The National's neuvo-legendary upstate NY Long Pond Studio, working with producers Jonathan Low (Big Red Machine, The National) and James Elkington (Steve Gunn, Joan Shelley), the latter of whom also did pre-production arrangement work with the band. It took Nap Eyes a long time and a long practice to reach this artistic zen, but one gets the feeling throughout Snapshot of a Beginner that this balance is going to hold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46872159617185,"sku":"656605236117","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/7038\/5569\/files\/3783147-2541821.jpg?v=1786548401","url":"https:\/\/store.consequence.net\/products\/nap-eyes-snapshot-of-a-beginner","provider":"Consequence Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}