I'm Bad Now, the most transparent and personal Nap Eyes album to date, constitutes the third chapter of an implicit, informal trilogy
that includes Whine of the Mystic (2015) and Thought Rock Fish Scale (2016). The brilliantly reductive title is something I've heard
my four-year-old son and his friends announce verbatim when roleplaying the perennial game of heroes and villains, "good guys" and
"bad guys." "I'm bad now," he declares, but an equivocal binary is implied: it's only a matter of time or trading places before he (or
anyone) has the capacity for good again. Perhaps goodness will manifest in the multiverse, on a different circuit than this faulty, frayed
one. Is that faith or fantasy? And what is the difference? The title is also, of course, a sly Michael Jackson appropriation.
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