OMD’s new album release English Electric is released today – an album that sees the band returning to a more experimental style of music writing while also embracing a much more electronic template to produce a record that is already … Read More

The future that you anticipated has been cancelled The release of History Of Modern in 2010, which effectively marked OMD’s revival with the classic line-up, could have been viewed as setting up the template for OMD’s sound in the 21st … Read More

Fact: OMD’s ‘Architecture & Morality’ is a benchmark of electronic pop, not just within the Synth Britannia era that spawned THE HUMAN LEAGUE, DEPECHE MODE, SOFT CELL, ULTRAVOX, GARY NUMAN etc but the genre itself. Founder member Paul Humphreys told … Read More

A special limited edition cassette release of English Electric is to made available in addition to the CD and vinyl releases on 8th April. The cassette release has been inspired by a recent revival in the tape format which has … Read More

A special set of postcards inspired by the art of Factory Records is currently available – and includes an OMD-related image. The Factory Edition of 24 Polite cards celebrating the first five years of art, music and architecture from Factory … Read More

What does the future sound like? One of the songs featured on the forthcoming OMD album English Electric will be getting its own special release later this month as ‘The Future Will Be Silent’ is issued in a limited vinyl … Read More

Rail journeys with OMD… Today marks the release of the new OMD single ‘Metroland’, the first release from the forthcoming album English Electric. Andy McCluskey described ‘Metroland’ as being part of English Electric’s theme of failed utopias: “The song is … Read More

Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys discuss the first single release from English Electric. More information is available on our English Electric In Profile article. ‘Metroland’ will be released on 25th March and is available to preorder via the Offical OMD … Read More

Belgian electropop outfit Metroland were invited to remix the forthcoming OMD single, also titled ‘Metroland’. Now the remix is available – complete with its own animated video. ‘Metroland’ will be released on 25th March and is available to preorder via … Read More

Forthcoming song from English Electric, ‘Night Cafe’ premiered earlier today on Graham Norton’s BBC Radio 2 show. The song is also now available to listen to on YouTube. ‘Night Cafe’ is one of the songs considered as a possible single … Read More