OMD - Bauhaus Staircase: Artefact OMD
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) return with their 14th studio album Bauhaus Staircase, over six years after the triumph of their Top 4-charting record The Punishment of Luxury.
The album was born from the impetus to kickstart new explorations during lockdown when as Andy McCluskey admits: “I rediscovered the creative power of total boredom.”
The album’s first offering as a single is the title track which serves as a nod both to Andy McCluskey’s love of the Bauhaus era & the power of protest art.
“I am a huge lover of visual arts especially mid 20th century movements” Andy comments.
“The song is a metaphor for strength and artist passion in the face of criticism and adversity.
When times are hard there is a tendency for Governments to look at cutting funding for creativity just at the moment when the arts are most needed to nourish our souls.
It seems appropriate that the song and its eponymous album were created during Covid Lockdown.”
Ranging further from the beautiful film noir ballad of ‘Veruschka’ and the dance stylings of ‘Anthropocene’ - a term for the current epoch in Earth’s evolution to the sinister ‘Evolution Of Species’ and the hectic ‘Kleptocracy’ - OMD’s greatest straight-up protest song - the new album is a broad electronic sonic masterpiece that lyrically tackles the topics of the future.
The record closes on ‘Healing’ - a moment of reflective calm.
By rights OMD should be in semi-retirement performing classics like Enola Gay and Maid Of Orleans on the nostalgia festival circuit like so many peers.
Instead they’ve created a landmark album worthy of their finest work.
Bauhaus Staircase remains unmistakably the work of a duo who are still perfectly in sync 45 years after their first gig at legendary Liverpool club Eric’s.
“I’m very happy with what we’ve done on this record" McCluskey summarises.
“I’m comfortable if this is OMD’s last statement.”
Track List
AUDIO
1. Bauhaus Staircase (Hi-Res Audio)
2. Anthropocene (Hi-Res Audio)
3. Look At You Now (Hi-Res Audio)
4. G.E.M. (Hi-Res Audio)
5. Where We Started (Hi-Res Audio)
6. Veruschka (Hi-Res Audio)
7. Slow Train (Hi-Res Audio)
8. Don’t Go (Hi-Res Audio)
9. Kleptocracy (Hi-Res Audio)
10. Aphrodite’s Favourite Child (Hi-Res Audio)
11. Evolution Of Species (Hi-Res Audio)
12. Healing (Hi-Res Audio)
13. The Rock Drill (Hi-Res Audio)
14. Silver Cloud (Hi-Res Audio)
15. Tomorrow Is Today (Hi-Res Audio)
VIDEO
1. Bauhaus Staircase (Music Video)
2. Slow Train (Music Video)
3. Veruschka (Music Video)
4. Anthropocene (Music Video)
5. Kleptocracy (Music Video)
6. Look At You Now (Music Video)
7. Evolution Of Species (Music Video)
8. In Conversation with Andy McCluskey & Andy Whitehurst (The Making Of Bauhaus Staircase’s Videos)
9. Evolution Of Species/Anthropocene (Live Visuals - Audio Live From Edinburgh)
10. Kleptocracy (Live Visuals - Audio Live From Edinburgh)
11. Bauhaus Staircase (Live Visuals - Audio Live From The O2, London)
12. Veruschka (Live Visuals - Audio Live From The O2, London)
13. Bauhaus Staircase (Video - First Draft)
14. Veruschka (Video - In Colour)
15. Look At You Now (Video - In Black & White)
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