Alex Napping - Mise En Place

Alex Napping - Mise En PlaceAustin based quartet Alex Napping draws from the deeply personal and the sonically groovy to create storytelling with a beat. Founded in 2013, the group includes lead singer and guitarist Alex Cohen, guitarist Adrian Sebastian Haynes, bassist Tomas Garcia olano, and drummer Andrew Stevens. In 2014, the band released their debut album, This Is Not A Bedroom, on Punctum Records. With a guitar focused sound, this first release reflects nostalgia for

The trio comes together on their debut full length Cosmovore to unleash a feral urgency for dizzying Absu like Black Metal with a Death Metal band's bludgeoning violence

Marlon and Sacha's gothic mantras mixed with the guest vocal talent of Clara Luciani

powerfully arranged and immaculately performed

Blonde Redhead) to create an album that wishes to offer the listener private musical spaces to dwell in for a while

bright Telecaster tones and spastic but warm drum progressions

" Charting the quartet's febrile evolution through the sonic palettes of North American post-hardcore and slowcore admixed with early UK post-punk

Nonetheless the 13 songs-10 Lowe originals and three country chestnuts-are marked by the sort of no-frills arrangements and unpretentious passion that made pub-rock so special in the first place

and a reminder of the album's lasting impact on pop music and social discourse

When Galaxie 500 sounds wistful ("Summertime")

and the straightforward soft- rock of Lazy Ways

Could be the serene and orderly discipline of music

swapping his gritty edge for a smooth