Nogonomas!‘s “Sorry” falls like fresh teardrops upon a polished hardwood floor. Crystalline shapes tumble, crash, and scatter. It’s the kind of career-defining song that showcases an artist’s sterling talents. “Didn’t have a whole lot of options / I wished for love / I guess I wished for this / Should have listened when the grifter read my fortune,” the folk duo laments over coarse, yet pounding, guitar work. It’s perfectly woven, homey and cozy. It signals an EP worth of some of their best compositions to date.
Work brings together the weeping “Behold, a man!,” in which the band observes a tattered and broken world, chained to work and lying, and “You Can Get Used to Anything,” a remarkable, heavy ode to animalistic strength born out of our souls. “Put me out to sea / Show me how to get by,” the duo sighs in the latter over bristling guitar that buzzes on their fingertips. “I’ve got nothing left / I’m willing to try.” The project’s fiery inertia reaches its apex with the closing track, “K-Hole, California,” a romping, wonderfully gothic setpiece of humanity’s slippery insanity.
The five-song Work EP stretches the duo’s gripping aesthetic and howling nature. Their arrangements are sticky, gummy even. And as each song unravels, an overwhelming sensation of existence’s ephemeral nature grows until it snaps.
Nogonomas!’s Work EP is out now.
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