artists such as Maxïmo Park and Everything Everything. Ways to Forget was released on 23 April 2012. The Sunday Times placed the album at number 7 on their list of best debuts of 2012. In their review, the Sunday Times called Ways to Forget "one of the indisputable masterpieces of British pop in 2012" and Clock Opera "a band of rare sonic ambition and scope." Clash described the album as "a bar-raiser—an album of intelligent synth-pop bubbling with humanity." Conversely, BBC Music called it "a product of perfectionism, but one where mechanical process obscures its human presence," while The Guardian said the album "...can seem almost beautiful. But more often than not, there's too much crammed in to be able pick those moments out." Clock Opera's song "The Lost Buoys" was used as part of the background music for the BBC's coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The music video for the single was directed by Ben Strebel and stars Alun Armstrong—father of keyboardist Dan Armstrong—along with Maggie O'Neill and Catherine Steadman. Venn & crowdfunding (2015 - 2017) On 28 May 2015, the band announced they would be starting a crowdfunding campaign to enable them to record their second LP in the summer of the same year. It was also revealed a few days later that keyboardist Dan Armstrong had left the band in 2014. Clock Opera shared a studio demo of a new track named "The Beast In Us" exclusively with contributors to their crowdfunding campaign on 18 June. The finalised version of the track is set to appear on the new LP. On 5 November 2015, the first track from the band's upcoming second LP, titled "Changeling", was premiered on DIY magazine's website and was co-produced and mixed by Kristofer Harris. On 8 March 2016, the second track from upcoming LP Venn, titled "In Memory", premiered on Consequence of Sound's website. Later, on 19 October 2016, the band shared a third track from the new LP, titled "Whippoorwill". It was also announced that the LP would be released on 10 February 2017, through !K7 records. Carousel (2019 - present) On 12 September 2019, Clock Opera's Instagram page began posting a series of images in countdown to the release of a new single. The images formed the artwork for the single, which was released on 20 September, and is titled "Be Somebody Else". It was also announced that long-time