Choice Quotes, Re:, Those Forever Known, As O.M.D.

Stop it right now. O.M.D. are pretty much the best English synth band ever and your recalcitrance to this fact is just another false construct preventing you achieving ultimate satisfaction and enjoyment. Sorry, did I say synth band? I meant band.

From the ground up, Architecture & Morality is a classic. It achieves the philosophers stone of being at once a beautiful pop album that is also resolutely experimental and disorientating. O.M.D. were at their pre-John Hughes prime when they recorded this; an experiment in marrying the robotic and the avant-garde to the universal truth of heartbreak and yearning.

Architecture & Morality, from its era defining Peter Saville design work upwards, is a stone cold gem. From the angst ridden yelp of 'Oh my God! What have we done this time?' on opener "The New Stone Age" to the ambient wash of "Sealand," there was a band with an L postcode unafraid to stand in the imbecilic and dunder-headedly massive shadow cast by the four brain-damaged mop tops. (Ironically, there is a knowing nod to The Beatles in the form of "She's Leaving," winking sagely to another band that married pop and experimentalism.) But (and let's not dwell on this too long) O.M.D. are significantly better than The Beatles.
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