OMD Release New Album And Share New Single 'Bauhaus Staircase'

Bauhaus Staircase is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the fourth since their 2006 reformation. It will be released on 27 October 2023 by White Noise Records.

The title track was released as a single on 22 August.

During 2020's COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, OMD frontman Andy McCluskey "rediscovered the creative power of total bloody boredom", writing the majority of what would become Bauhaus Staircase. Bandmate Paul Humphreys had recently become a father, which delayed his mixing of the album.Humphreys notes that the record also includes older songs that OMD "wrote for previous albums and couldn't find a way to finish." Its release – set for 27 October 2023 – was preceded by a single, the title track, on 22 August.

The title is derived from the Oskar Schlemmer painting, Bauhaus Stairway (1932). McCluskey has stated that the album is likely to be OMD's last.




Track Listing:

Bauhaus Staircase
Anthropocene
Look at You Now
G.E.M.
Where We Started
Veruschka
Slow Train
Don't Go
Kleptocracy
Aphrodite's Favorite Child
Evolution of Species
Healing