Junk Culture Vinyl

OMDs 1984 hit album receives the treatment recently afforded to its two predecessors, Architecture amp Morality and Dazzle Ships remastered from the original inch reels and cut at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.Still very much active their last album No. 2 in the UK, No. 7 in Germany was issued in 2023, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark OMD, founded by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, emerged from Liverpool in the late 70s and are rightly regarded as one of the more original of the socalled synth pop outfits of the following decade.Notably also one of the more successful, they have enjoyed at least 20 hit singles across Europe and beyond, with total sales of around 40 million records to date.Junk Culture is their fifth album, released 30 April 1984. It featured another Peter Savilledesigned sleeve but was a consciously more melodic effort than its experimental predecessor Dazzle Ships and was a significant success, charting across Europe and hitting the top 10 at home in the UK.Produced by the band and Brian Tench with additional contributions by Tony Visconti, it was recorded at a variety of locations including AIR Studios in Montserrat, which had a newlyacquired, stateoftheart Fairlight CMI sampler keyboard, and Wisseloord in Hilversum, Netherlands.As intended, Junk Culture returned OMD to the upper reaches of the singles charts too, with Locomotion top 5 in the UK and top 10 across Europe, Talking Loud and Clear No. 11 in the UK, top 5 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland, and the club hit Tesla Girls No. 21 in the UK, No. 8 in the Netherlands. All three remain live favourites.