On which 1991 album did OMD release the song “Pandora’s Box”?

OMD released the song “Pandora’s Box” on the 1991 album Sugar Tax. The album marked a major point in the group’s post-1980s career and included one of its most recognizable later singles.

The track’s subject is closely tied to cinema. It references Louise Brooks, the American actress who played Lulu in Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s 1929 silent film Pandora’s Box. OMD’s song therefore connects electronic pop with a film that itself takes its title from the Pandora myth.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, usually called OMD, formed in Wirral, England, in 1978. Its music combines synthesizers, sequenced rhythms, pop melodies, and experimental electronic ideas. Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys were central to the band’s sound and songwriting.

Sugar Tax was released in 1991, the same year as Aerosmith’s separate Pandora’s Box compilation. The shared title can cause confusion, but the OMD song belongs to Sugar Tax, not to the Aerosmith collection.