Gábor is listening to... 2017/22

OMD stands for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, which refers to an English electronic music band. The youth of today might not be familiar with them as they formed in 1978 and had more attention in the 80s, for example with the anti-war song Enola Gay.

Originally OMD was a four-men group led by Andy McCluskey singing and playing the bass, however, the classic line-up lists the band as a duo featuring Paul Humphreys on the keyboard. As a duo, OMD contributed to electronic music history with songs like Souvenir and Maid of Orleans as well as with the above-mentioned Enola Gay.

After some pop-oriented years as a band in the late 1980s, OMD became a one-man McCluskey electro-pop project in the 1990s, featuring the top 20 hit Walking on the Milky Way in 1996 - shortly after which the project ceased to exist.

Ten years later in 2006, however, the original line-up decided to reform and have been producing new material ever since, the latest of which will be released in the fall of 2017.

From the original McCluskey/Humphrey/Cooper/Holmes line-up only Malcolm Holmes is not taking part in the band anymore because of health issues. OMD's thirteenth studio album entitled The Punishment of Luxury will be released on 1st September 2017. with Stuart Kershaw on the drums instead of Holmes. The forthcoming album features the idea that problems as such are created by the media suggesting that being part of consumer society or "consuming" will help solving them.