The Punishment of Luxury

"The Punishment of Luxury" is the thirteenth studio album by English synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the third since their 2006 reformation. Produced by OMD, it was released on 1 September 2017 by White Noise Records. The record debuted at no. 4 on the UK Album Chart on 8 September 2017, making it the band's highest-charting album in their home country since 1991's Sugar Tax. The Punishment of Luxury has received generally favourable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 9 reviews.