Search - Omd :: Dazzle Ships

Four and a Half Stars?

J. Brady | PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC United States | 04/16/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not as perfectly integrated as Architecture and Morality ( in my opinion their best) Dazzle Ships is worth a listen if you enjoy quirky, minimalist synth-based dance-ish pop music. Very highly recommended. Telegraph bounces along quite nicely. Of All the Things We've Made is one of my favorite OMD ballads. Radio Waves is cool. The submarine effects in the title track are trippy like Pink Floyd. Foreign language radio samples are used frequently throughout the CD,to varying degrees of sucess, but they somehow tie it all together, whatever "it" is. Overall, one of their best, if I could give four and a half stars I would."

80s revival, techno pop..your collection should start here

decker | Belmont, CA | 07/27/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Im new to OMD, and uncovering this album was exciting. If you like sounds, this album has them. An album any fan of Radiohead should be envious of, as early as this album was made.



There is an Eastern European, montagey, Battleship Potemkin theme that runs through the album. A concept of communication, and various sound bytes laid underneath beautiful hooks keep you thinking about far away places. This album has been described as "futuristic pop", but listening to the album straight through its as if the label "futuristic pop" was defined in the thirties and fourties. A time of radar and propaganda. A time of soot and machination, one piece uniform dresses, salutes and emotional distance with so much underlying passion.



"If You Leave" is probably OMDs most recognizable song, an eighties classic. But to realize they contributed to making complete albums like this is reinvigorating. "Radio Waves" is the most all around playble song from this album, but "Genetic Engineering" and "Telegraph" are the tracks give the album more meat. Then, tracks like "Silent Running" and "All the Things Weve Made" in conjunction with the montage of horns calling the workers to attention and invoking images of staring into an orange horizon from the deck of a submarine in hopes of seeing your true love again, round Dazzle Ships out, creating the most pleasant and listenable techno pop eighties concept albums ive heard.



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Quite a surprising album

filterite | Dublin, Ireland | 08/21/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this in a sale in Tower Records ( ?5 ) and when I first listened to it I thought it was diabolical. Half the tracks were horrible and half were really weird. I promptly didn't play this for a long time and it was only a couple of weeks ago I played this again and surprisingly enough it really gelled as an album on a whole. It's got some good things going. It can be irritating sometimes but generally the album's a pleasure to listen to. Pity that this album got turned up on first release but then on first listen I could understand why. A surprising rare treasure that should be enjoyed"