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Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed

Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
Nomeansno Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed.jpg
Studio album by Nomeansno
Released 1988
Recorded December 1987
Studio Profile Sound, Vancouver, Canada
Genre Punk rock
Length 46:31
Label Alternative Tentacles
Producer Cecil English, Nomeansno
Nomeansno chronology
Sex Mad
(1986)
Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
(1988)
Wrong
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars

Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed is the third full-length album by Vancouver punk rock band Nomeansno. It was their second album with longtime guitarist Andy Kerr and first recorded after signing with the prominent punk rock label Alternative Tentacles. The album is highly experimental both sonically and compositionally, and ranks among the band's most challenging works. It was released on LP in 1988, and issued on the CD compilation album The Day Everything Became Isolated and Destroyed with the EP The Day Everything Became Nothing, recorded during the same sessions.

Nomeansno entered the Profile Sound recording studio in December 1987 to record the follow-up to their second album, Sex Mad. The resultant sessions yielded both the EP The Day Everything Became Nothing and the album Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed, which were later packaged together on compact disc as The Day Everything Became Isolated and Destroyed.

AllMusic critic Sean Carruthers awarded the album two-and-a-half out of five stars. He praised the album's "tight instrumentation which is informed both by punk and by jazz," but argued that the material ultimately "lacked zip."

All songs written by Nomeansno

Side one

Side two

Nomeansno

Additional musicians

Production and artwork


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