ORCHESTRAL Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) will play York Barbican on November 18 on The Punishment Of Luxury Tour, with tickets going on sale on Friday at 10am.

The 18-date autumn tour will support the September 1 release of OMD's 13th studio album, The Punishment Of Luxury, in a career stretching back almost 40 years to when two teenage Kraftwerk fans from the Wirral, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, formed their synth-pop duo.

Such OMD albums as 1980's Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, 1981's Architecture And Morality and 1983's Dazzle Ships helped to shape the dominant electronic sound of that decade, alongside The Human League and Tubeway Army's Gary Numan. Now McCluskey and Humphreys return with their first studio set since 2013's English Electric, creating a "daring collection of stylish synth pop and masterful song craft that sees OMD edge out of their comfort zone without compromising their integrity".

“It’s almost like we’ve gone back to being teenagers after all these years,” says McCluskey, now 57. “We just do whatever we want and there’s no record company to tell us what we can or can’t do.”

Reflective and sanguine in mood, the album was recorded in McCluskey and Humphreys' respective studios in Merseyside and London, with the final mixes being handled by both at Paul’s place.

OMD were thrown off balance in July 2013 when long-time drummer Malcolm Holmes suffered a serious heart attack on stage in a sweltering Toronto on the English Electric tour. “We struggled initially to start writing The Punishment Of Luxury album because we were in shock after Malcolm nearly died,” says McCluskey.

“We didn’t want to play live as we wanted to give him 12 months, just to see how he was, and also we felt shocked and up in the air. It took us a year to get our engine started.”

Holmes, who joined OMD in 1980, is in good spirits but must no longer drum, under doctor’s orders. His replacement, Stuart Kershaw, has been playing live with the band for the past year, having previously co-written several OMD tracks, most notably Sailing On The Seven Seas.

From Friday, tickets for November 18 can be booked on 0844 854 2757, at yorkbarbican.co.uk or in person at the box office.