The Punishment of Luxury (album)
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| Studio album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | ||||
| Released | 1 September 2017 | |||
| Genre | Synth-pop | |||
| Label | White Noise Records | |||
| Producer | OMD | |||
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The Punishment of Luxury is the thirteenth studio album by English synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the third since their 2006 reformation. Produced by OMD, it will be released on 1 September 2017 by White Noise Records.
OMD are set to tour Europe and North America in support of the album.
Toward completion of the gruelling recording sessions for English Electric (2013), there were internal doubts about the band's future. Morale had risen after several months of touring the album, however. Keyboardist Paul Humphreys said in August 2013: "We're already talking about what we should be doing next. We've got a great idea for a new album actually." By the turn of 2015, writing of the album had "started in earnest", with song titles "The Punishment of Luxury" and "Evolution of Species" being announced. The latter did not make the album.
The Punishment of Luxury shares its name with a 1891 painting by Italian artist Giovanni Segantini. In December 2016, OMD frontman Andy McCluskey expounded: "We've taken that idea and extrapolated it into sort of... a metaphor for modern life, really. First world problems. All of the shit we have to deal with is only a problem that's created for you by some suggestion that came from a marketing man or a PR job that's been done on you."
Humphreys said of the album's musical direction: "We're still trying to maintain our connection with our roots, but we've tried to go a bit more, even more stripped-down than English Electric." McCluskey added: "There's a little bit more sort of crunchy industrial sound in a few things, a bit glitchy-er. But you know, the bottom line is that we have a sense of melody that we just can't throw off." In May 2017, McCluskey noted the band's use of "noises and repetitive patterns".
The track "La Mitrailleuse" (French for "The Machinegun") was released on 15 May 2017; its Henning M. Lederer-directed video is based on the 1915 painting by Christopher R. W. Nevinson after which the song is named. The album's first official single, "Isotype", was premiered on 29 May 2017 and made available for digital download and streaming the day after.
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