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From the Promoter

English Electric, All original four-piece –
Following the April 9 release of OMD's 12th album S

Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper – will be reunited
once again during their North American tour beginning April 4 in Vancouver, BC. The band will
perform at Toronto's Danforth Music Hall on July 11.

English Electric was written, recorded, produced and mixed by OMD – Andy McCluskey and
Paul Humphreys. It is a 12-track letter to technology, space, love and a grand return to form for
a band whose 1980 hit “Enola Gay” occupied the world’s stage at last year’s Olympics Opening
Ceremony.

LP Highlights include the radioactive clatter of “Atomic Ranch” – a song which pokes fun at
convention with computerized voices – “Kissing The Machine” – which was composed in
collaboration with early influence Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos –“Helen of Troy” – which
revives the recurring historical figure motif – and the glacial, uplifting “Metroland,” the first single.

As Andy McCluskey says of the album; “The overarching feel tends to be a sense of loss,
of melancholia, that things haven’t turned out the way you wanted them to, whether it be
with technology or personal relationships.” The title itself – taken from a British industrial
manufacturing company – has further resonance for the pair as locomotive enthusiasts and self-
confessed technology geeks.

This is the follow-up to 2010’s History of Modern and the band’s 12th album to date. The
upcoming tour will commemorate the band’s 35th anniversary.

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