It was from that moment on that the media began to realise that Horn & Morley weren’t the Art of Noise, but had only been a part of it and began to give trio the credit they deserved. Work began on a new album and in October their first single for China Records, Legs was released. We’re going to try again, just the music". turned up for rehearsals we shot them, and now we’re back with no group, no names, no faces.
Art of Noise were due to appear, but pulled out of the event as there wasn’t enough time to prepare leaving Morley to improvise on stage and announced that “ Last Monday when Anne, Gary and J.J. With nobody at ZTT noticing that the group’s contract had expired, things came to a head when a two week show at the Ambassador’s Theatre was staged. Their next planned appearance would lead to an acrimonious split between the three main members of the group and Horn & Morley. Next up was the BBC’s long running Top Of The Pops where the trio were actually seen for the first time miming and dancing to Close (To The Edit) without their masks and once again in their Moments In Love video.
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With only two days notice they performed live on the cult Channel Four series The Tube with Morley acting as spokesperson. Dudley, Jeczalik & Langan minus Horn appeared on television for the first time. With the way the group were marketed and perceived, the idea of a totally faceless group began to fade. Two of the most misleading images appeared in the second Beat Box video which saw Morley appearing in the intro and outro with Horn being seen behind a turntable in his SARM studio. Around that time tensions within the group were starting to surface as over the past year the media were crediting everything to Horn & Morley. With a top ten hit behind them, the Art of Noise were now in the public consciousness being featured in teen music magazines and on appearing on radio shows. A second version of Close (To The Edit) appeared in November with a new animated video directed by Andy Morahan which began to propel the group and the track into the UK charts, peaking at number 8 in February 1985. The track illustrated that technology could also be used to make a serious point on a record by sampling news reports, then turning them into a form of 'lyrical performance' as opposed to making music aimed at the dancefloor. A Time For Fear (Who’s Afraid) opened the album by highlighting the story of the illegal invasion of the British Commonwealth island of Grenada by the United States.
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The LP featured the two singles released in that year along with the full length version of Moments In Love that appeared on their debut extended play. In June the Art of Noise’s debut album was released entitled (Who’s Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise!, four months before it was released in the UK, it was vast re-working of a planned and scrapped album called Worship.
The single was accompanied by an award winning video directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski that was regarded by some as too violent as it showed traditional instruments being smashed up and cut up with chainsaws. An edited version of (Diversion Two) was issued in the USA as Close (To The Edit) in late June. Beat Box (Diversions One and Two) was issued in March 1984 in the UK.
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