I love 'Dazzle Ships'. I discovered early OMD stuff in the mid-90s and thought the first 4 albums (i.e. up to 'Dazzle Ships') were all pretty weird, alien and bleak for what is supposedly a pop act. It's really interesting reading that article and discovering a) how big they were before what I think of as the really straight pop stuff (If You Leave, I Never Know Why etc) and b) that 'Dazzle Ships' was viewed as a massive departure from what had come before.