All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
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| Studio album by Nomeansno | ||||
| Released | August 22, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 53:03 | |||
| Label | Wrong Records, AntAcidAudio (North America), Southern Records (Europe) | |||
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All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt is the tenth and final studio album by Vancouver punk rock band Nomeansno. It was released by Wrong Records, the band's own label, in conjunction with AntAcidAudio in North America and Southern Records in Europe, making it their first record not to be released by the Alternative Tentacles imprint since Mama in 1982. The album marked a return to shorter and less experimental songs than their previous efforts, Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (1998) and One (2000).
Nomeansno split with their longtime label Alternative Tentacles in 2002, two years after the release of their ninth album, One. They began the process of re-releasing their albums on their own Wrong Records imprint, and issued their best-of album The People's Choice in 2004.
The band began rehearsing a batch of new songs for their tenth album in 2004, around the time of touring in support of The People's Choice. The new songs contained more songwriting input from drummer John Wright than those on the band's previous albums. The songs also were generally shorter than the band's more recent work, and the group consciously wrote an album in this style in reaction to several of their previous albums. John Wright remarked:
After One had come out, which was a fairly, well, not really dark album, but it was a "sit and listen to on your own" kind of record. With the longer songs, especially with "Bitches' Brew", I really enjoyed that and was really happy with it. I think it is one of our stronger records. But we thought, Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie was a very obscure album and not our greatest effort, so Ausfahrt was like, let's do some short songs, 10 or 12 on the album, and keep it under 50 minutes, and just try to do something rocking...the group of songs we chose for Ausfahrt, it had a kind of flow – not earth shattering or really deep but that was a fairly conscious effort to do something that was a little more accessible.
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