"Giving Akron/Family a run for their money..."
Making a sound larger than other trios, they have thrived on developing a music style that is hard for journalists to describe, and even harder to ignore. Tooling with influences of space rock, math rock, progressive rock, and garage, No Go Know has mastered their own genre in recent double disc release "Time Has Nothing to Do With It." Compared most recently to Built to Spill and My Morning Jacket, they thwart conventional songwriting with a balance of loud/soft.
"No Go Know have taken it upon themselves to record...a (sshhh) concept album. What’s the concept?....The concept is that bands can still and should still reach beyond the ceiling, beyond the sky, even. An album should sound like it’s struggling to stay on the disc, as though it might crack and breakout, bursting from its cell. Maybe the concept is if you give everything you have people will love you and, hopefully as this is the obvious next step, renounce all those pale, make do, fly by night acts that operate as mere lifeboats to keep afloat a failing music industry. To hell with the concept. Let’s just bask in what must be contender for album of the year." TastyFanZine, Nov 2009
"No Go Know puts together an album that predominantly purveys indie sensibilities but are never afraid to go outside the boundaries and mix in a myriad of hard rock jam sessions doused in fuzzed out psychedelia." Imagine Echoes, 2009
"No Go Know is a band with ambition. That explains this double album: indie rock with gnashed guitar string twisting, groove-flecked jams, icy space rock and clear-eyed acoustic odes. No Go Know is not easy to categorize, but influences include Built to Spill, My Morning Jacket and Pink Floyd; essentially the group has mastered the trick of meshing inspirations into a specific sound that does not seem unfocused or overtly derivative." Campus Circle, 2009
"My Black Dog" grabs you right from the start with a throbbing bass groove and jangly guitar parts that hit a crescendo at the end with some crazy over the top guitar work" Gaspect, 2009
"Listen up people… while everyone is waxing on about the Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket being the bee’s knees, I’d put it out there that No Go Know just might be a band that should grace your iPod as well. Over the past few weeks I’ve grown from mildly impressed to full on admiration of this superb double album of original material." Fazer Magazine, 2009 on Time Has Nothing To Do With It
"a versatile mix of spacey rock and pop" Delusions of Adequacy, 2009 on Time Has Nothing To Do With It
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"A collection of material like this one has, with some songs topping the 9 minute mark, is daring and unique in itself, but the consistency that No Go Know puts on display throughout the album shows you the talent that this band offers." Guestlist Magazine, 2009 on Time Has Nothing To Do With It
No Go Know has " a musical prowess lacking in many other bands. Perhaps, however, this works to No Go Know's detriment. Maybe the music world just isn't ready for a band that can master all styles and then throw them back into your face, a swirled conglomerate of sound?" Meghan Vogel, Times Standard, March 2009
"this band demonstrates immense musical talent on their double disc second album." MetroSpirit, 2009 on Time Has Nothing To Do With It
"doesn’t meet your every demand when it comes to commonplace indie rock, this band if indie-gypsy rockers’ manic acuity should establish them as one of Portland’s bellwether voices." Fensepost on Time Has Nothing To Do With It
"moves from calm to a full-on assault" Local Cut
"No Go Know has an intuitive understanding of dynamics, often starting a song on a more relaxed level before kicking it up a notch and letting the music become big, dense and swirling." Performer Magazine
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