Sugar Tax was OMD’s 1991 album associated with “Pandora’s Box.”
Sugar Tax was the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s eighth studio album. It marked a major return for the group after the departure of founding member Paul Humphreys, who had left before the album’s production and later returned to the band.
The album included “Pandora’s Box,” a single whose title and subject evoke Louise Brooks and the 1929 film Pandora’s Box. Other songs on the album helped establish OMD’s early-1990s sound, balancing synthesizer-driven arrangements with accessible pop songwriting.
Sugar Tax should not be confused with Architecture & Morality, the earlier OMD album most strongly associated with the band’s classic period, or with Junk Culture, another album from the group’s 1980s catalog. The title “Sugar Tax” refers to the album, not to a mythological object or a film title.