Reading, Pennsylvania's Rivers Of Nihil have never fit neatly into a box, but with 2018's "Where Owls Know My Name", they transcended all labels applied to them. Returning in 2021 with "The Work", they have forged further into new territory, delivering an album that is as cerebral as it is visceral, and that covers a staggering sonic range, definitively placing them in a category of their own.