Organisation  by O.M.D.

Organisation is the second studio album by the English band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (O.M.D.). Pressured by their record label Dindisc after the success of the single Electricity in early 1980, the band began recording their second career album in the summer of the same year. This time, in the production of the album – beyond the members of the band – we also encounter Mike Howlett (former member of Gong).

Organisation was completed and hit the market at the end of October 1980. Thus, O.M.D. had two studio album releases in the same year. If Electricity was the big hit of the first album, here we have Enola Gay, which would become one of the most popular songs of the English synth-pop scene in the early 1980s. From then on, however, Organisation is a deeply dark and melancholic album – dark like its cover. Synth-pop is present as well as the influences of Kraftwerk, all within a gothic aesthetic.

Despite the fact that it is not an easy album to listen to as a whole, Organisation managed to reach No. 6 in the United Kingdom, where it went gold selling over 100,000 copies.