upcoming Nape Neck LP – debut single premiered today at Post-Trash!

Link here : https://post-trash.com/news/2025/8/25/nape-neck-the-shallowest-end-post-trash-premiere

LP comes up Sept 19th with pre-orders starting next Friday Sept 5th – thrilled beyond!!

Speaking about the new single, Bobby Glew (guitar/vocals) shared:

“‘The Shallowest End’ is a song portraying the masochism of modern life. Teenage faux pas split off and mutate into shameful meekness and dominatrix superiority whilst keeping up appearances under the shade of outwardly acceptable milestones.”

Excerpt from review:

“Leeds based trio Nape Neck play with the kind of tension that makes your head feel as though it might explode. One of the tighter and more caustic post-punk bands of this decade, they work in knots that opt to tangle further rather than come undone. It’s really something to behold, a band that has evolved punk into a sponge of brainy rhythmic experimentation.

There’s a magical chaos to the trio’s music, as evident on the title track to their upcoming album, a song that moves with a locked in groove and a tidal wave of crashing no wave guitars. It really doesn’t take long for the song to spiral out of control, but the thing is, it just keeps spiralling deeper. For all the ramshackle art punk abandon, the band are very much in impeccable control, hyper focused as they convulse and reshape the deranged pulse of the song. It’s a work of art that’s as confounding as it is engaging, a truly delightful carnage that twitches in the face of stagnation.” – Dan Goldin

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For the last five years, Nape Neck has been perfecting their sharp-angled post-punk—patiently, steadily, unerringly—and The Shallowest End is proof of concept, spread out over ten songs of gratifying anxiety. Based in Leeds, England, the trio consists of bassist/singer Claire Adams (also in the excellent Objections), drummer/singer Kathy Gray, and guitarist/singer Bobby Glew (also drummer in scorched-earth noise rock duo Guttersnipe). While The Shallowest End is Nape Neck’s first full-length album, it is not their debut. That would be the self-titled LP that came out earlier in 2025 which collected the band’s first two cassette EPs into a single volume of bruising and playful rhythm-focused punk rock. Along with that collection, The Shallowest End is being released into the world by three cutting-edge labels—Red Wig (Germany), OCCII, Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Dot Dash Sounds (USA).

Erick Bradshaw (Spin Age Blasters with Creamo Coyl on WFMU)