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Dazzle Ships
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Dazzle Ships · After the successful Architecture & Morality from 1981, Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey had actually wanted to disband OMD. Virgin Records, which had taken over the contract, wanted a copy of that record, but that drove the group in a different direction. They worked in their own Gramophone Suite in Liverpool, with the E-mu Emulator, and later with producer Rhett Davies in Chertsey. The album was released on 4 March 1983.
The record is experimental: sound collages in the style of musique concrète and recordings of shortwave radio about the Cold War and the Eastern Bloc. Radio Prague contains the interval signal of Czechoslovak radio. Time Zones is a montage of speaking clocks from all over the world. Genetic Engineering and Telegraph became singles. The reviews were at first largely negative and the record was regarded as a commercial flop, even though it reached the British top five. Later it grew into a cult classic, praised as an album that was ahead of its time.
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Track list
- 1Radio Prague1:18Apple Music ↗
- 2Genetic Engineering3:38Apple Music ↗
- 3ABC Auto-Industry2:07Apple Music ↗
- 4Telegraph2:58Apple Music ↗
- 5This Is Helena1:58Apple Music ↗
- 6International4:25Apple Music ↗
- 7Dazzle Ships, Pt. II, III & VII2:22Apple Music ↗
- 8The Romance of the Telescope3:27Apple Music ↗
- 9Silent Running3:34Apple Music ↗
- 10Radio Waves3:45Apple Music ↗
- 11Time Zones1:50Apple Music ↗
- 12Of All the Things We've Made3:27Apple Music ↗
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