The group's singer and songwriter, Stina W�ppling, along with the production duo Astma & Rocwell (real names, Tobias "Astma" Jimson and Michel Rocwell), began playing together in the spring of 2012. In addition to her day job as a psychiatric nurse, W�ppling was working at becoming a songwriter. It wasn't going well.

"I was feeling down about the songwriting process," W�ppling said. "I hadn't done any of it before, but a lot of it was analyzing a topic and figuring out who it should be for. I didn't know how to write like that. It started to feel like songwriting wasn't for me."

W�ppling came back together with the guys, who she had previously worked with informally, looking to start an actual group. The guys didn't need too much convincing, since they had been fans of what W�ppling had done on her own and with other bands, and she says that working with them helped her to "love and find joy in writing again."

W�ppling says they all had "similar goals and views" on music, which helped them coalesce. That common ground helped smooth the differences in their vastly different tastes. On paper, their individual influences, which range from hip-hop to '80s dance to female singer songwriters, shouldn't work well together. But when you listen to NONONO's music, it's clear it somehow does.

W�ppling said that a journalist had a theory that if you took every member of a particular band's first influence, "the first type of music that they really fell in love with," that a listener would be able to find the core of said band's sound.