Metroland
by OMD

Album: English Electric (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was released as the lead single from English Electric, the twelfth studio album by the British Synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). It was premiered on the BBC 6music radio show Radcliffe and Maconie on February 11, 2013.
  • The song's music video was created by animator Garan Rushton and directed by David O'Byrne. OMD's lead singer Andy McCluskey said regarding the concept: "London's Metropolitan Railway sold a dream 'Live in Metroland.' So many people were encouraged to move out of the city center that the open fields they fled to became vast swathes of suburbia. The very act of reaching for Utopia led to its destruction."

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