Compulsory Games by Battery Operated Orchestra

BOO’s fifth album is their most powerful work yet. Twelve thumping electronic pop tracks that lead us confidently from sweaty night club, to newsroom, to wild desert and to the dark flooded edge of town. Exploring our complicity with power and throwing a wry smile at the games we’re forced to play every day.

Sonically, it’s massive. By turns dark and deep, then in a flash, soaring and joyful. BOO’s battalion of analogue synthesizers generate a through-line of pulsing, forward momentum. The album twists through darkness and light, ending in a kind of redemptive apotheosis.

It's a game of life. Let's play.

The CD is handmade by the band themselves including a 24 page booklet, full of abstract and evocative linocut imagery that wouldn’t look out of place in a 1950s brutalist high-rise.

"Highlights dazzle consistently throughout" - Obscure Sound

"Restores faith in British synth-pop" - Louder Than War

"Packed full of thumping electronica" - York Calling

"An accomplished collection of vital electropop" - Blitzed Magazine

"If you sound this fresh, vital and relevant on your fifth album, you're doing really, really well" - Fresh On The Net

Tracklist

1.	Cut Off The Head	4:01

2.	Compulsory Games	3:59

3.	Dead News	3:19

4.	Service Economy	3:03

5.	Killing Girl	3:20

6.	Rainhead	4:40

7.	Nightclub Mishap	3:44

8.	Confession	3:36

9.	Unbecoming	3:27

10.	Always On	4:09

11.	Lullaby	4:21

12.	All That Rises Must Converge	7:29

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released October 31, 2023

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