Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
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Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: An Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Special!

In this month's subscriber podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran go deep on two albums from the magnificent OMD

Anniversary

Obstinate Medical Diagnosis: Out From The Void With OMD

As we approach the 40th anniversary of OMD's self-titled debut, Kristen Gallerneaux examines illness and recovery through the lens of her introduction to their early work

A Quietus Interview

Eric’s, Probe And The Armadillo: The Story Of Liverpool Music, 1976-1988

Through a series of interviews, Patrick Clarke charts the history of Liverpool's brilliant, bitter and burgeoning music scene of 1976-1988, from Eric's and Probe to Top Of The Pops domination

Anniversary

30 Years On: OMD’s Architecture & Morality Remembered

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark released one of the Quietus' favourite albums in 1981. John Doran reflects on the warmth of Architecture & Morality and talks to Andy McCluskey

A Quietus Interview

OMG It’s OMD! Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Interviewed

OMD are returning to their avant pop roots, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys tell Julian Marszalek

A Quietus Interview

Orchestral Manoeuvres & Homoerotica: Owen Pallett Opens His Heartland

Owen Pallett, currently on a UK tour, introduces Luke Turner to the saucy farmer who inspired latest album _Heartland_. Photos by Lucy Johnston

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

No Barrier Fun: Angus Andrew Of Liars’ Favourite LPs

Liars have always been masters of mixing a boggling array of influences into a music that's unhinged, inventive and powerful. Here, Angus Andrew guides us through 13 of his favourite LPs, running the gamut from hip hop to smooth jazz and The Cure

Baker's Dozen

Oh L’Amour: Vince Clarke Of Erasure’s Favourite Albums

In a festive special Baker's, Vince Clarke follows Erasure's Snow Globe album by picking out the 13 LPs that mean the most to him

News 4

INTERVIEW: Liverpool Sound City

Ahead of Liverpool Sound City's return to its roots as an urban festival this May, the event's Chief Operating Officer Rebecca Ayres speaks to Patrick Clarke about their latest chapter

INTERVIEW: OMD

As a second teaser video is made available, Wyndham Wallace speaks to Andy McCluskey about Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s forthcoming album, English Electric, due for release in April

BACK: OMD

35th anniversary sees band releasing new album English Electric in April; watch teaser trailer below

Exclusive: OMD To Release Live CD

Live In Berlin to be a limited edition, deluxe account of last year's History Of Modern tour

Previously Read

Album of the Week

The Lead Review: Ned Raggett On Marissa Nadler’s Strangers

Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape

News

GASH! Fundraising Party at the Rio Dalston with Princess Julia & Faux Naïf

The subversive cinema takeover is back in Hackney this April with an even bigger celebration of women in underground scenes, goth, EBM and fetish culture

News

Metal Modernism Comes to Tasmania This April

Quietus Ed John Doran presents the Australian debut of the Live Documentary Performance: What Is This That Stands Before Me? Metal & Modernism in Hobart/Nipaluna

Baker's Dozen

The Golden Past: Marianne Faithfull’s Favourite Albums

Following the recent reissue of her landmark album Broken English, and in advance of her 50th anniversary as a performer next year, Marianne Faithfull tells Joel McIver about her 13 favourite LPs

Art

Fed Through The Memory Filter: Richard Foster’s Museum of Photocopies

Curator Richard Foster welcomes us into his Museum of Photocopies

News

London’s New River Studios to Host ZXFU Event with Sly & The Family Drone and More

UKAEA, Stef Kettt and others are also listed to play the Harringey weekend weird-out

Film

Voice Of The Eagle: The Enigma Of Robbie Basho Reviewed

Danny Riley reviews a new documentary about the American guitarist and mystic, Robbie Basho

Art

The Trumpet That Blows Its Own: Nevin Aladag’s Fanfare

A show at the Hayward Gallery by Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ brings the city alive with music

Books

In The Field: The Transatlantic Folkways of Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins’ reminiscences of a journey through America with Alan Lomax provide an education in folk music for Jim Hilton

Books

The Drugs Don’t Work: Brave New World, 85 Years On

Joel McIver celebrates the insights of Aldous Huxley’s terrifying masterpiece – and questions whether anything has changed since it was published in 1932

Books

Orgasm Addict: New Fiction Inspired By Buzzcocks

'Orgasm Addict' by Tomoé Hill is an exclusive extract from the new Dostoyevsky Wannabe book, Love Bites: Fiction inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks, edited by Andrew Gallix, Tomoé Hill and C.D. Rose

Books

Tomorrow Belonged To Them: Kraftwerk’s Future Music From Germany

Uwe Schütte’s new book, Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany places the group in a lineage stretching from the Weimar to Berghain, finds John Quin

Baker's Dozen

Moments In The Sun: Nite Jewel’s Favourite Albums

Nite Jewel takes us through the albums that inspired her latest record No Sun, from Miles Davis to Cluster, via digressions on the importance of bad karaoke and Nietzschean philosophy

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