![]() 2LP Coloured (standard gatefold sleeve)Īfter extensive touring in 2022, the band will head out on the road again this Summer for a run of UK festival dates.2LP Black (D2C only – bespoke gatefold with additional panel and die cuts – a replica of the original record).Both versions will use the alternate blue artwork. There will be two sets available – one in the original bespoke die cut sleeve on 180 gram black vinyl, and a second in a standard gatefold sleeve, on blue and silver vinyl. The lovingly put together set comprises of the original album, plus a bonus LP of unreleased demos and rarities which has been compiled and mixed by Paul Humphreys. We did a few gigs, playing tracks of Architecture & Morality and such, but we didn’t want to be a tribute band to ourselves for the rest of our lives.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) continue their special 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement of a brand new expanded version of the band’s fourth studio album, Dazzle Ships – out March 31st via UMR/EMI. And then when you’re 46, they call you up and tell you to get your boots back on and play. We had hung up our microphones like we were old football players who hung up their boots. As McCluskey put it, “For a band that was past their sell-by date, a lot of young musicians were name-checking us. The band reunited only after they “had spent enough time part” and when a new generation of artists started to acknowledge the influence that OMD had on their own work. English Electric is the second album to feature OMD’s classic lineup – original members McCluskey, Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes – since 1986’s The Pacific Age. That left McCluskey, operating more or less as solo act, to put out three records under the OMD name in the Nineties. It was number one in France and Italy for three months!”ĭespite what some Americans might think, OMD has had a wildly prolific career before the original lineup disbanded in 1986. “They think of us as one-hit wonder! ‘Enola Gay’ sold five million records, but we couldn’t get arrested in America. “The strange situation we find ourselves in with American audiences is that they know ‘If You Leave,’ but are hard-pressed to think of another song,” McCluskey said with a laugh. Their third album, the critically acclaimed Architecture & Morality, yielded three chart-topping singles and threw the band into international stardom, save for in the United States. Video: OMD Explore Suburbia in ‘Metroland’Īfter that one gig, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, better known as OMD, began to explode on England’s nascent New Wave scene, with their 1980 debut album hitting number 17 on the U.K. A list of songs by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), which albums they are on and where to find them on Amazon and Apple Music. It was only at the end of 1978 that we dared ourselves to play the songs live.” ![]() “We were writing songs together in the back room of Paul ’s mom’s house and, quite frankly, our friends thought they were shit. “The whole of our career is one huge accident,” McCluskey continued. “I’m still surprised that we had any career at all. “It’s not bad going for a band that was only going to do one gig,” frontman Andy McCluskey told Rolling Stone recently. On Tuesday, British synth-pop legends Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are releasing English Electric, their 12th studio album. ![]()
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