Office Politics (album)
Office Politics is the twelfth studio album by The Divine Comedy. It was released on 7 June 2019. It is a concept album concerning the workplace, and the ever-growing role machines play in it. The deluxe edition of the album features a bonus disc of Neil Hannon's original piano demos for his songs for Royal National Theatre's 2007 musical adaption of Swallows and Amazons.
Singer and songwriter Neil Hannon said that the use of marimba was inspired by bands such as Blondie on their single "The Tide Is High" and Siouxsie Sioux's second band The Creatures. Hannon also cited the tribal drums of early Adam Ant as one of the other references.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally good reviews."Charts
