They came to prominence in the early 1980s, releasing four UK top-20 singles: "Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", "Blind Vision" and "Don't Tell Me".

Their debut studio album, Happy Families (which featured a sleeve painting in the style of Louis Wain and of the cover artwork of Enid Blyton's books), also reached the top 30.

[2][6] Luscombe released an album of Indian-influenced music, New Demons, with Pandit Dinesh, Peter Culshaw, Priya Khajuria and Asha Bhosle under the name West India Company, in 1989.

Meanwhile, Arthur released his debut solo studio album, Suitcase, in 1994, which spawned the singles "One Day, One Time" (UK No.

Following a gap of a quarter of a century, Blancmange reunited and released their fourth studio album, Blanc Burn, in March 2011.

[2] Blancmange performed a UK tour in November 2013, during which they played their debut studio album Happy Families (1982) in its entirety at each show.

[9] Initially the new album was only available to buy on the tour, but a digital download followed and a physical CD was released on 7 April 2014 which included four brand new remixes.

On 2 December 2014, the official Blancmange website announced details of a new studio album for release on 23 March 2015 on Cherry Red Records.

[16] On 23 June 2017, Fader, a new musical project between Neil Arthur and Benge, released their debut studio album, First Light.

[17] In August 2017, Edsel Records released the 9-CD boxset The Blanc Tapes that expanded each of the three 1980s albums over three discs with additional material and liner notes by Neil Arthur.

[2] In February 2018, Near Future, another side project comprising Neil Arthur and Jez Bernholz (from Gazelle Twin), announced they will release their debut studio album, Ideal Home, on 25 May 2018.

[19] In July 2019, In Shadow, the second studio album by the Fader project (Neil Arthur and Benge), was announced for release on 18 October 2019.

[20] An instrumental album by Blancmange, Nil by Mouth II, was released on 22 November 2019 as a limited-edition run of 1000 copies.