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Bauhaus Staircase - Sealed

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK Bauhaus Staircase (Sealed 2023 UK/EU limited edition 12-track Cassette, their fourteenth studio album featuring lead single & title track Bauhaus Staircase. Housed in a card picture slipcase, factory sealed)

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Product Availability Last 2 copies in stock. Order now for shipping on Friday 22nd November
Release Date 27th Oct 2023
Release Year 2023 - 1 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format cassette album
Record Label White Noise 100%
Complete Stock List Go to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Product Catalogue No 100CASS138
Music Genre POP, Electronica, 90's Pop, 80's Pop
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
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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.”

Side A
1. Bauhaus Staircase
2. Anthropocene
3. Look At You Now
4. G.E.M.
5. Where We Started
6. Veruschka

Side B
7. Slow Train
8. Don't Go
9. Kleptocracy
10. Aphrodite's Favourite Child
11. Evolution Of Species
12. Healing

CASSETTE ALBUM  
Recording Artist Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Product Title Bauhaus Staircase - Sealed
Product Information Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Bauhaus Staircase - Sealed UK cassette album.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Andy McCluskey, Dalek I Love You, Godot, Listening Pool, The ID
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