Sugar Tax is the eighth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1991 on Virgin Records. It was group's first studio album since 1986, and the first of three recorded without co-founder Paul Humphreys, who had departed in 1989. Essentially a solo venture for singer Andy McCluskey under the OMD moniker, it leans more towards the dance-pop genre that was prevalent in the early 1990s, than the experimental brand of synthpop which characterised the band's earlier recordings. The album received modestly favourable reviews but was a resounding hit with the public, continuing the commercial renaissance initiated by 1988's The Best of OMD. It charted at No. 3 in the UK – the group's first Top 10 entry for a studio album since 1984's Junk Culture – and spawned two UK Top 10 hit singles: 'Sailing on the Seven Seas' and 'Pandora's Box'. By early 2007, the record had sold over three million copies. Sugar Tax is the only album in the OMD catalogue not to feature the songwriting contribution of Paul Humphreys.