The ‘kestrels seem to have been very active in the summer – playing festivals and headlining very well attended shows in continental Europe, where they remain a very big act as a standalone going concern.

This is Bauhaus Staircase – a song title that screams New Romantic pretencieux-ness from the top of its lungs. What’s going on? Well, it’s a corker. As with the best of their work, you feel you are walking past a huge industrial machine – a big, loud, rhythmic sound.

McCluskey the songwriter is in there too. The melody is a tessellated membrane, covering the machine and the themes of beauty and the bleak, colour in the monochrome, moments of love within drudgery – all offer a brisk salute and report for duty, sah!

It’s everything you want from OMD – and the forthcoming LP Lufthansa Terminal* promises more of the same.

*not really