The music made by Philadelphia shoegazers Nothing has long been steeped in melancholia, a mood quite possibly informed by the considerable degree of ill fortune the band, and in particular frontman Dominic “Nicky” Palermo, have experienced. A year after the group released their critically acclaimed debut album, Guilty of Everything, in 2014, Palermo was brutally beaten by a group of men following a show in Oakland, causing degenerative brain damage.