Office Politics (album)

Office Politics
Studio album by
Released7 June 2019
Recorded2017–2019
GenreArt pop
Length60:39
LabelDivine Comedy
ProducerNeil Hannon
The Divine Comedy chronology
Foreverland
(2016)
Office Politics
(2019)
Singles from Office Politics
  1. "Queuejumper"
    Released: 3 April 2019
  2. "Norman and Norma"
    Released: 16 May 2019
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Clash7/10
musicOMH
Paste7.2/10
The Skinny

Office Politics is the twelfth studio album by Northern Irish chamber pop band the Divine Comedy, released on 7 June 2019 by Divine Comedy Records. 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 Divine Comedy singer-songwriter Neil Hannon's original piano demos for his songs for Royal National Theatre's 2007 musical adaption of Swallows and Amazons.

Hannon has 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 music as another inspiration.

Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, awarded the album an average score of 77, based on seven reviews, indicating "generally good reviews."