"The more experimental stuff gently teases rather than confronts any radically new ground while the pop stuff - largely the work of McCluskey - lacks the insistence of an 'Electricity' or 'Messages'." Adrian Thrills

NME 24/10/80

"If only this twosome would cease clinging to the idea of being a serious 'experimental' band and go all out for the shameless synth-pop single, then at least we'd be spared these mindless retreads of a rather limiting format. Apart from the nice 'n' sleazy 'Motion And Heart', they haven't the substance to be anything but clever and superficial. Another 'Electricity' would seem to be in order. (5 out of 10) " Mark Ellen

Smash Hits

"OMITD are warmer than your so-called 'warm' bands, your Springsteens and your Parkers could ever be. They reflect the young horror of where and how we live but, in their songs at least, they face the problems with an irrepressible intuitive sense that makes the best pop of any time." Dave McCullough

Sounds

"With their second album, OMD have produced not so much a collection of songs as a pervading mood, a feeling of restfulness spiked by an unsettling edge that never allows the music to descend into complacency." Lynden Barber

Melody Maker