Insect and Individual Silenced

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Insect and Individual Silenced

Studio album by Nurse With Wound
Released	1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Industrial, Experimental
Length	46:13
Label	United Dairies
Producer(s)	Steven Stapleton
Merzbild Schwet (1980)	Insect And Individual Silenced (1981)	Homotopy to Marie (1982)

Insect and Individual Silenced was the fourth album by Nurse With Wound.

The album was recorded in 1981 with core member Steven Stapleton being joined by drummer Trevor Reidy and J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus. Reidy and Thirlwell worked in the same Virgin store in London at the time and met Stapleton there. The album, however, is best known for Stapleton's outright hatred of its contents. He told David Keenan that the album was "dreadful" and "a pile of shit", stating that "making that record was the worst mistake of my life". Keenan declares the record to be nowhere near as bad as Stapleton suggests but agrees that it is a less disciplined album than those immediately surrounding it. Stapleton also advised Keenan that he had burned the mastertapes.

Stapleton pledged never to release the album on CD but a reworked edition of the album by Matt Waldron (working under his usual moniker Irr. App. (Ext).) was slated for release through World Serpent. However, the release was cancelled when World Serpent went out of business in 2004 and is now unlilkely to appear at all [1]. A small number of copies handmade by Waldron exist.

More recently a US record shop, Amoeba Records, has been advertising a NWW release with the words "Nurse With Wound's unwanted child returnes in 2007" later adding "26 years after the funeral, Alvin gets a new dress"[2]. They will not formally announce the release, the first on their new Raash imprint, until April 5th (when NWW will perform in their store) but it appears very likely that Stapleton has finally consented to a legitimate reissue of this album.

The original LP release was pressed in an edition of 1000 with a small overrun of 10 copies coming in handmade sleeves. A cassette edition was issued at the same time. However, around 1987, the United Dairies catalogue began to describe this as a "remix". [3]. Some sources declare that this edition is drastically reworked[4]. If this is the case, then the exact date at which Stapleton destroyed the tapes may be moot. The cassette format is still available via U.S. label RRR under a licencing deal covering a number of early United Dairies cassette releases. For the time being, all extant CD editions are bootlegs.