NOMEANSNO
All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
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· Umpteenth release for this Victoria-based duo.
Post-punk, post-rock, post-jazz – post just about anything you can think of, for the last two decades Nomeansno have been writing songs that challenge our notions of pop music. Unfortunately, not every listener will be up for that challenge. Isolated in their island retreat, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt is unlikely to make many new converts or keep those growing weary of the band’s experimental ways. However, for fans who see Nomeansno as the leading heir to Frank Zappa, these 10 tracks will surely please.
With all that is going on in the world it is odd to find Nomeansno so disconnected from it. Even tracks like "Heaven is the Dust Beneath My Shoes" that continue the band’s anti-organized religion stance, occur without any reference at all to the renewed creationism/intelligent design debate.
Yes, songs like "Mondo Nihilissimo 2000" and "The Hawk Killed the Punk" are good and even catchy in a Nomeansno way, but too many songs like "I See a Mansion in the Sky" find the listener asking that oh-so-existential question, "Why am I listening to this?" All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt is a disappointment, not so much because the songs are bad but because Nomeansno could have done so much more with this particular moment in time.
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