I'm Bad Now

1. Every Time The Feeling
2. I'm Bad
3. Judgement
4. Roses
5. Follow Me Down
6. You Like To Joke Around With Me
7. Dull Me Line
8. Sage
9. Hearing The Bass
10. White Disciple
11. Boats Appear

While Chapman composes Nap Eyes songs in their inchoate form at home in Halifax, Brad Loughead (lead guitar), Josh Salter (bass), and Seamus Dalton (drums), who live a twelve-hour drive away in Montreal, augment and arrange them, transubstantiating his skeletal, ruminative wafers into discourses that aim to transcend what Nigel, in the song "Dull Me Line," self-laceratingly deems "bored and lazy disappointment art." The band provides ballast and bowsprit to Nigel's cosmical mind. The nautical metaphor is not just whimsy: Nap Eyes are all Nova Scotians by raising and temperament, acclimated to life on an Atlantic peninsula linked narrowly to the rest of North America. "Follow Me Down," with its "broad cove" and bay, and "Boats Appear," with its "steam trails rising from the sea," both offer an evocative sense of place for these otherwise mental mysteries. We are very many creatures, with innumerable possible courses to explore. So let fly the cosmical mind into the gray night, dear listener.