 Vish Iyer - 01/12/2010  For those retrophiles desperately holding onto the few scraps of the vestiges of ‘80s synth-inspired pop music, an OMD reunion with its most celebrate...
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Jess Harvell - 16/11/2010  History of Modern is being released at the most synth-heavy time for popular music since the days when OMD first blew up. In America they did it via P...
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| Kenny McGuane - 01/11/2010 Modern music is just as guilty of setting the stage for a mega ’80s comeback as are the artists who defined the era. The synthesizer has pushed its wa...
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| Nathan Kamal - 15/10/2010 All right, let's just get this part out of the way; "If You Leave" is a pretty great song, Pretty in Pink is an iconic '80s soundtrack and Orchestral ...
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| cloudspeakers - 06/10/2010 A recent review of this album described OMD, rather glibly, as an Open University version of Joy Division. The fact is that they were like-minded purv...
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| Sean O'Neal - 05/10/2010 Before surrendering to bland John Hughes sentimentality, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark infused avant-garde circuit-bending with a warm pop heart. ...
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| Pete Crigler - 02/10/2010 On OMD's first studio album in 14 years -- and their first album featuring their original lineup in24 years, the band immediately head back to their c...
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| John Bergstrom - 01/10/2010 Over the past few years, OMD have really set the table for a smashing comeback. First came the well-received reunion shows, featuring the band’s “clas...
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Johnny Dee - 20/09/2010  For all the 80s influenced synth pop we’ve heard in the last few years there are sounds on this album that haven’t been heard since Margaret Thatcher ...
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| John Doran - 07/09/2010 In the late 70s OMD were early synthesizer adopters and pop musicians with a serious avant-garde bent, who were looking to Kraftwerk and Harmonia for ...
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| cmureviews - 26/08/2010 Given the last few years' electronic pop resurgence, it's feels right that one of that genre's pioneers should resurface for their first album in 14 y...
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