9. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the DarkArchitecture & Morality

I was fascinated that they had two Joan Of Arc songs, I thought it was amazing. I was listening to it recently and I thought ‘wow, it sounds very modern’. With the instruments they’re using, it’s like they’re discovering those sounds for the first time, and they’ve chosen very carefully how they’re using them. It’s trying to create this world, and it’s really so heartening that it was a huge album, because it’s really taking risks: in the sequencing, in the songwriting, it’s very special, yet I feel that the songs are very simple, they’re almost like 60s or 50s songs put to electronica. The melodies are so strong on this album – ‘Souvenir’ is such a great song. I must have been 10 or 11 when this came out, and it led me to all those magazines like The Face – as a teenager living in Germany then it was, like, ‘wow!’ I’d cut pictures out and stick them on my workbooks, I was the kid who did that.