On 24 October 1980, OMD released their second studio album “Organization” featuring “Enola Gay” “Stanlow” and the Joy Division/Ian Curtis-inspired "Statues".
The record, and its cover art, have nevertheless been ranked among the best of 1980. When including 1981 follow-up Architecture & Morality in his 2023 list of "The 50 Greatest Synth-Pop Albums of All Time", Paste critic Matt Mitchell stated that Organisation and 1985's Crush – both excluded under a "one album per artist" rule – were "equally worthy". Writing in Fact, Minimal Wave Records founder Veronica Vasicka identified Organisation as one of the mainstream releases to have influenced the development of the minimal wave genre.