ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Junk Culture (Half-Speed Master) – LP – Vinyl

Description

LP – Black Vinyl. Remastered from the original inch reels and cut at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.

OMDs 1984 hit album receives the treatment recently afforded to its two predecessors, Architecture and Morality and Dazzle Ships: remastered from the original inch reels and cut at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.

Junk Culture is their fifth album, released 30 April 1984. It featured another Peter Saville-designed 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 newly-acquired, state-of-the-art 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.

Tracklist:

A1. Junk Culture
A2. Tesla Girls
A3. Locomotion
A4. Apollo
A5. Never Turn Away

B1. Love And Violence
B2. Hard Day
B3. All Wrapped Up
B4. White Trash
B5. Talking Loud And Clear