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Lloyd Bradley |
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October 1987 |
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 ART OF NOISE
In No Sense? Nonsense
CHINA WOL4 LP/Cass
The Art Of Noise's main fault is that they are not really very
entertaining. Who's Afraid Of had the shock value to fool people it was
better than it was - play it tomorrow and see what you think now - but
there's been so little progression between then and In No Sense, that
their vaunted 'pushing back the barriers' looks like briefly moving the
goalposts. Dragnet, a recent single, is joined by A Day At The Races and
How Rapid as adventures in beats that have no understanding of rhythm.
Other tracks include a percussion and wailing guitar chase, snatches of
the Ely Cathedral Choir, 10 seconds of passing pedestrians recorded in
an underpass somewhere and several snippets of New Agey clonking and
banking. It's all excellently recorded, but comes over like the sort of
thing hi-fi buffs use to listen to their very expensive equipment. **
Lloyd Bradley |
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