Nap Eyes' "Feline Wave Race" Is a Patient Reintroduction to Halifax's Slacker Rock Philosophers

Their new single "Feline Wave Race" takes a similar perspective, its musings on life delivered with a heavy-lidded drawl and a winking sense of humour. Alongside a tip-tapping drum machine and loose acoustic strumming, vocalist Nigel Chapman delivers a quietly devastating series of lines: "Down on a rock planet / With water and trees / Were a hundred million or so / Double barrelling monkeys and / Might be half a billion or so / Types of beetle species / And nobody but me / That's just like me."

The verses go on and on for six minutes, with the lyrics making room for skull-cracking and a cat playing Wave Race 64, before the song's lonely synth lead and a long fadeout. As a comeback after a few years of silence, it's a beautifully patient reintroduction to the group.