So, I guess I'm predisposed to like Dazzle Ships. I mean, I enjoy pseudo-totalitarian themes in art, synth pop, and baroque pop. (I once wrote about Heartbeat City as the epitome of baroque pop, but I think that article has vanished somewhere on the internet.) Regardless, I genuinely believe that Dazzle Ships is a very good album and is certainly better than anything OMD has released since. I really admire some of the more experimental-type tracks which are interspersed with the regular pop-type songs. Telegraph in particular might be as good as any song OMD has ever made, and that includes Enola Gay. I particularly enjoy the crazy tone that the multiple tracks give to Andy McClusky's voice.
Junk Culture is not a bad album but pretty much represents OMD beginning to atone for their more experimental side with a long series of pure pop albums. Architechture and Morality is clearly the best OMD album, but this one is more experimental while retaining a lot of quality tracks. Dazzle Ships deserves more love than it gets. Oh, and, Of All The Things We've Made is just as touching if not moreso than Souvenir. So mad points for that.
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