nocona los dos

​Nocona (from the album Los Dos available on Mule Kick Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Los Angeles, California-based Nocona has found that sweet spot. It is centered where Roots and Garage Rock, Cosmic Country and Punk find an older siblings stash of dark Psychedelia with their latest release Los Dos while also managing to explore Country Rock and bar band boogie. Los Dos is a dark Folk, Rock’n’Roll earful, part grievous-angel Graham Parsons, part devil-in-the-woods Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Album opener “Stabby Mike” features a single guitar and vocal for 47 seconds before the band kicks in with a lazy, laidback melody which includes a skip down the sidewalk whistle. 
“Free Throw” rolls on a jam band groove and “Chester” is a charger, with its woe-me lyrics of ‘can’t get up too late anymore’ it is a quick bit of lyrical self-pity in a punky Blues ripper with Nocona firing on every cylinder. Clinking beer bottles amid pre-musical direction mutters open “Post-Apocalyptic Blues”. A lyric like ‘walking round town with my head hung down’ coupled with the barroom piano begging a drunken singalong and the band channeling 70’s era Rolling Stones on the rocker of “Too Much To Lose.”  Six minutes of “Ace in the Hole” closes Los Dos, Nocona kicking it off with acoustic guitar and pedal steel, playing it patient as they build the song into a big ballad and epic closer. Los Dos is a keeper times two. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
Listen and buy the music of Nocona from AMAZON
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