Blog: PopMatters

Nomo imagines every city skyline as a sound wave and, building on Ghost Rock , diffuses their Afrobeat-centeric sound in directions that could get any city's party pumping. Italo Calvino's 1972 novel Invisible Cities is a series of poetic travelogues posed as a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That NOMO has named their latest album after Calvino's work admits to a degree of cultural tourism on the band's part. This should be no surprise to those who've been following the various shapes and sizes of the Michigan-by-way-of-Africa group since their origins. Formed as a college band [...]