In No Sense? Nonsense! was the third full-length album by Art of Noise and released in 1988, as indicated on the cover. By the time of its recording, the group had been reduced to a duo, with engineer Gary Langan leaving the previous year—Langan's mix engineering duties were taken over by Bob Kraushaar and Ted Hayton for this album, but the music was produced entirely by Anne Dudley and J.J. Jeczalik. The album saw the group expanding their sound to include rock and orchestral instrumentation, in addition to their trademark sampling.
Many of the album's tracks are seamlessly segued; ambient soundscapes blend into percussive rhythms, dramatic buildups, melodic string arrangements, and vocal choruses and chants. The sounds of various forms of transport are a recurrent theme. Musical motifs from "Dragnet", "Galleons Of Stone" and "Ode To Don Jose" recur throughout the album.
Some cassette versions of this album have the same program recorded on both sides. The LP version has "Ode To Don Jose" before "A Day At The Races", whereas the CD has them in the opposite order.
"Ransom on the Sand" is sampled in "Melt," the 4th track of Leftfield's 1995 release Leftism.
[edit] Track listing
- "Galleons Of Stone" (Jeczalik)
- "Dragnet" (Schumann)
- "Fin Du Temps" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "How Rapid?" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Opus For Four" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Debut" (Dudley)
- "E.F.L." (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "A Day At The Races" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Ode To Don Jose" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Counterpoint" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Roundabout 727" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Ransom On The Sand" (Jeczalik)
- "Roller 1" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Nothing Was Going To Stop Them Then, Anyway" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "Crusoe" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
- "One Earth" (Dudley/Jeczalik)
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