Bauhaus staircase

"Bauhaus Staircase may be the final chance to hear that voice on a new Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album. Now approaching their mid-60s, McCluskey and Humphreys have hinted this may be their last. If so, it is a fine, fitting bookend to one of the more successful second acts in modern pop history".

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"Concern for the planet rings throughout, and comes to a head with the stern trawl through sampled Darwinian buzzwords Evolution Of Species and the album's hymnal, torch-singing conclusion, Healing. It may occasionally sound warmly, comfortingly like the past, but this is an album with its mind fixed firmly on the future".

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"OMD har bedrevet et album, der på mange måder dyrker lige præcis de dyder, som gruppen har gjort til varemærke: parringen af det nørdede og skæve med fornemmelsen for ørehængere og effektiv produktion ... Bauhaus Staircase er på mange måder helt klassisk OMD i den forstand, at gruppen gør det, den velsagtens altid har gjort bedst (...) nemlig fusionen af det lidt nørdede og aparte med det ørehængende og effektive".

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"These Liverpool synth-pop machines have engineered the latter part of their career to make them the band you need to listen to should you ever tire of Kraftwerk. This is no small claim; many tracks on Bauhaus Staircase (which McCluskey has implied could be OMD's final album) interweave the kind of glorious synth swirls pioneered by the Düsseldorf fab four".

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"Bauhaus Staircase may be the final chance to hear that voice on a new Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album. Now approaching their mid-60s, McCluskey and Humphreys have hinted this may be their last. If so, it is a fine, fitting bookend to one of the more successful second acts in modern pop history".

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"Concern for the planet rings throughout, and comes to a head with the stern trawl through sampled Darwinian buzzwords Evolution Of Species and the album's hymnal, torch-singing conclusion, Healing. It may occasionally sound warmly, comfortingly like the past, but this is an album with its mind fixed firmly on the future".

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"These Liverpool synth-pop machines have engineered the latter part of their career to make them the band you need to listen to should you ever tire of Kraftwerk. This is no small claim; many tracks on Bauhaus Staircase (which McCluskey has implied could be OMD's final album) interweave the kind of glorious synth swirls pioneered by the Düsseldorf fab four".

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"OMD har bedrevet et album, der på mange måder dyrker lige præcis de dyder, som gruppen har gjort til varemærke: parringen af det nørdede og skæve med fornemmelsen for ørehængere og effektiv produktion ... Bauhaus Staircase er på mange måder helt klassisk OMD i den forstand, at gruppen gør det, den velsagtens altid har gjort bedst (...) nemlig fusionen af det lidt nørdede og aparte med det ørehængende og effektive".

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