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- Record Label: 100 Percent
- Release Date: Oct 27, 2023
- Summary: This is the first full-length studio release since 2017's The Punishment Of Luxury from British electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).
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- Record Label: 100 Percent
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 27, 2023As faithful as these songs might be to their back catalogue, OMD have never been ones to repeat themselves, and everything here shines with an intense and neon-lit originality.
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Oct 27, 2023It may occasionally sound warmly, comfortingly like the past, but this is an album with its mind fixed firmly on the future.
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Oct 27, 2023They still have plenty to give, plenty to say – and Bauhaus Staircase stands up there with the cream of their electronically harvested crop.
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Nov 6, 2023As far as 21st-century Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark goes, it contains some all-time highs and some all-time lows. Overall, that leaves it as the second-best of the bunch, behind the excellent English Electric (2013).
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UncutNov 13, 2023The duo show renewed confidence as they strike a balance between pristine electro=pop songcraft and the loopier inclinations that once fuelled Dazzle Ships. [Review of the Year 2023, p.30]
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MojoOct 27, 2023Bauhaus Staircase shows OMD thriving as much as surviving. [Dec 2023, p.91]