In No Sense Nonsense

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1987 release. Features bonus seven-inch and 12-inch mixes including collaborations with Paul McCartney (The Art of Noise 'Spies Like Us' remix) and Duane Eddy ('Spies'). Additionally, there are 22 unreleased recordings from the sessions, taken from the original master tapes. In No Sense? Nonsense! Is the third full-length album by Art of Noise, recorded in 1987 and released in September that year. By the time of it's recording, the group had been reduced to a duo, with the engineer Gary Langan leaving the previous year. With this album, the group expanded it's sound to include rock and orchestral instrumentation, in addition to it's trademark sampling. Many of the album's tracks are seamlessly segued; ambient soundscapes blend into percussive rhythms, dramatic buildups, melodic string arrangements, clarinet ensemble 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.