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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships

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Dazzle Ships is the fourth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released in 1983.

The album was the follow-up release to the band's hugely successful Architecture & Morality. In contrast with its celebrated predecessor, Dazzle Ships met with a degree of critical and commercial hostility, due to the inaccessible nature of half of the material it contained, particularly musique concrète sound collages, utilizing shortwave radio recordings to explore Cold War and Eastern Bloc themes (the odd numbered tracks).

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Side 1

  1. “Radio Prague”
  2. “Genetic Engineering”
  3. “ABC Auto-Industry”
  4. “Telegraph”
  5. “This Is Helena”
  6. “International”

Side 2

  1. “Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III & VII)”
  2. “The Romance of the Telescope”
  3. “Silent Running”
  4. “Radio Waves”
  5. “Time Zones”
  6. “Of All the Things We’ve Made”


The title and cover art (designed by Peter Saville) alluded to a painting by Vorticist artist Edward Wadsworth based on dazzle camouflage. The painting, Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, is in the collection of the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Canada. The album was released on LP, compact cassette and compact disc, with distinct artwork.

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