“They think of us as one-hit wonder! ‘Enola Gay’ sold five million records, but we couldn’t get arrested in America. “The strange situation we find ourselves in with American audiences is that they know ‘If You Leave,’ but are hard-pressed to think of another song,” McCluskey said with a laugh. Their third album, the critically acclaimed Architecture & Morality, yielded three chart-topping singles and threw the band into international stardom, save for in the United States. Video: OMD Explore Suburbia in ‘Metroland’Īfter that one gig, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, better known as OMD, began to explode on England’s nascent New Wave scene, with their 1980 debut album hitting number 17 on the U.K. It was only at the end of 1978 that we dared ourselves to play the songs live.” “We were writing songs together in the back room of Paul ’s mom’s house and, quite frankly, our friends thought they were shit. “The whole of our career is one huge accident,” McCluskey continued. “I’m still surprised that we had any career at all. “It’s not bad going for a band that was only going to do one gig,” frontman Andy McCluskey told Rolling Stone recently. On Tuesday, British synth-pop legends Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are releasing English Electric, their 12th studio album.
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