Dazzle Ships

Dazzle Ships is the title of the fourth studio album by British group OMD. It was released on 04 March 1983, shortly after the lead single Genetic Engineering. The album title is a reference to a painting by Vorticist artist Edward Wadsworth entitled Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, based on dazzle camouflage used on warships during World War I. The album's artwork, designed by Peter Saville, reflecting the title, is also based on the dazzle camouflage technique.

The album was the follow-up to the group's highly successful 1981 album Architecture & Morality although failed to match the success as its radical, experimental compositions, many of which were based on sound samples and short-wave radio recordings, alienated many fans and failed to impress the critics.

The album has since been re-evaluated as an essential part of the OMD canon, and of electronic and experimental music, with many artists citing it as a source of inspiration.

Facts and figures
Dazzle Ships

Original LP and cassette, later also CD
Side One Side Two
 * 1) Radio Prague
 * 2) Genetic Engineering
 * 3) ABC Auto-Industry
 * 4) Telegraph
 * 5) This Is Helena
 * 6) International
 * 1) Dazzle Ships (Part II, III & VII)
 * 2) The Romance of the Telescope
 * 3) Silent Running
 * 4) Radio Waves
 * 5) Time Zones
 * 6) Of All the Things We've Made

2008 remastered CD
as above plus bonus tracks:
 * Telegraph (The Manor version 1981) - previously unreleased
 * 4-Neu - B-side to Genetic Engineering single 
 * Genetic Engineering (312mm version) - 12" release
 * 66 and Fading - B-side to Telegraph single
 * Telegraph (extended version) - 12" release
 * Swiss Radio International - previously unreleased