0 + 2 = 1
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| Studio album by Nomeansno | ||||
| Released | November 4, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | July 1991 | |||
| Studio | Profile Sound Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Genre | Post-hardcore | |||
| Length | 47:01 | |||
| Label | Alternative Tentacles | |||
| Producer | Cecil English, Nomeansno | |||
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0 + 2 = 1 is the fifth full-length album by Canadian punk band Nomeansno. Released in 1991, it was the fourth and final studio album to feature Nomeansno's longtime guitarist Andy Kerr. The proper follow-up to their most popular album, Wrong, the record was somewhat polarizing but generally well received by critics.
By 1991, the members of Nomeansno had quit their day jobs and focused on their band, which was gaining an increasing audience in Europe and North America. They had finished supporting their most widely acclaimed record, Wrong, whose promotional tour yielded the live album Live + Cuddly. They recorded The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy collaboratively with former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra earlier in the year before beginning work on the proper follow-up to Wrong.
In July, the band returned to Profile Sound Studios to record with Cecil English. They recorded 19 songs during the sessions, of which 11 appeared on the final record. The album tracks included a mix of hardcore punk, progressive rock, and experimentation, as well as "straightforward swinging grooves" as in the opening song "Now."
All eight of the outtakes were eventually released. Two tracks, covers of The Subhumans's "Oh Canaduh" and D.O.A.'s "New Age," were issued as a 7" on Allied Recordings later that year. Another, a cover of the track "Forward to Death," was included on the Dead Kennedys tribute album Virus 100. The remaining five outtakes were packaged with four demos and released as the 0 + 2 = 1 ½ compilation in 2010. Each of these five outtakes appeared on subsequent Nomeansno releases: "Cats, Sex, and Nazis" and "I Need You" on Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? (1993), "Blinding Light" on Mr. Right & Mr. Wrong: One Down & Two to Go (1994), and "Lost" on The Worldhood of the World (As Such) (1995).
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