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}} ''Sugar Tax'' is the eighth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released in 1991 on Virgin Records. It was group's first studio album since 1986, and the first of three recorded without co-founder Paul Humphreys, who had departed in 1989. Essentially a solo venture for singer Andy McCluskey under the OMD moniker, it leans more towards the dance-pop genre that was prevalent in the early 1990s, than the experimental brand of synthpop which characterised the band's earlier recordings. The album received modestly favourable reviews but was a resounding hit with the public, continuing the commercial renaissance initiated by 1988's ''The Best of OMD''. It charted at No. 3 in the UK – the group's first Top 10 entry for a studio album since 1984's ''Junk Culture'' – and spawned two UK Top 10 hit singles: "Sailing on the Seven Seas" and "Pandora's Box". By early 2007, the record had sold over three million copies. ''Sugar Tax'' is the only album in the OMD catalogue not to feature the songwriting contribution of Paul Humphreys. ==Reception== 〕 |rev2 = Colin Larkin |rev2score = 〔Larkin, Colin. ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music''. Virgin Books. 1997. ISBN 0753501597. p. 350.〕 |rev3 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' |rev3score = (B) |rev4 = ''Q'' |rev4Score = |rev5 = ''St. Petersburg Times'' |rev5Score = (favourable)〔Riccio, Richard. "''Sugar'' is sprinkled with gems". ''St. Petersburg Times''. 23 August 1991. p.21.〕 }} Critical reaction to the album tended towards the positive. Richard Riccio was thoroughly impressed, describing the record as being "sprinkled with gems" in his review for the ''St. Petersburg Times''. He added: "''Sugar Tax'' is classic OMD, and after a four-year absence marks a triumphant return for one of new wave's original invaders."〔 Gina Arnold in ''Entertainment Weekly'' was also favourable, writing: "OMD have never been afraid of combining naked emotion with their cold techno-mechanics, and it's this emotion — exhibited in lead singer Andy McClusky's () sobbing, soaring vocals – that redeems their take on the otherwise fairly vacant dance-pop genre."〔 A review in ''Q'' magazine lauded ''Sugar Tax'' as "an unflappable album of quality songs which re-establishes OMD's credentials as masters of synthesized melancholia and dreamy pop songs."〔 Conversely, Ned Raggett in AllMusic described the album as "pleasant instead of memorable", and felt that it suffered due to the absence of McCluskey's former bandmates. Raggett did, however, have praise for "Sailing on the Seven Seas", and selected "Call My Name" as a highlight.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sugar Tax (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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