No Win

Danny Nogueiras had one simple motivation for the 10 songs that make up Downey, the debut album by his band NO WIN – honesty. This candor is evident from the very first notes, but with each subsequent listen the songs dig deeper and deeper, attaching themselves to the listeners’ own emotions and experiences until its songs become shared memories. Downey takes its name from the Southern California city Nogueiras he grew up in. “It’s a good representation of where I come from, and it’s nostalgic for certain elements of the past while still being sad about them,” he says. Downey is a compendium of glory days and melancholy memories, of hopes for a future already passed, and for dreams that may still be one day be realized.