Dog Eyes releases hypnotic single ‘nano’
Bay Area indie-folk duo Dog Eyes returns with ‘nano,’ the latest single from their forthcoming EP Blue Bird Rain Cloud—a dreamy exploration of small moments made vast.
Built around a looping piano motif, ‘nano’ unfolds like a lighthouse beacon cutting through the fog, its gentle pulse guided by Hailey Firstman and Davis Leach’s layered vocals. Drawing on the spaced-out textures of Sung Tongs–era Animal Collective and the intimate warmth of Florist, the track stretches a simple guitar idea into a shimmering soundscape. As synth washes ebb and flow beneath the piano, the song’s tape-like repetition conjures both nostalgia and wonder—transforming a battered childhood iPod into a vessel for the entire world.
Firstman says of the track:
“‘Nano’ was born from Davis sending me some guitar he’d written and I experimented with singing over it. The lyrics were very stream of consciousness and culminated into a sort of dreamlike feeling, zooming in and out quickly from small to big. ‘Nano iPod, lighthouse in the fog,’ is my favorite line, thinking back to childhood holding my beat up pink nano, it felt like I was holding a whole world. That concept in general feels very woven throughout the whole ep. Small feeling big and big feeling small.”
Out now, ‘nano’ stands as a centerpiece of the EP’s theme: small moments feeling impossibly vast. Blue Bird Rain Cloud is out July 25 via Grand Jury.
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