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SOFT CELL
"Cruelty Without Beauty"
2020 Re Issue: Double CD Album.
Released 3rd December 2020.
Cruelty Without Beauty, Soft Cell’s fourth studio album, and the first since their original split in 1984, happened after Marc Almond and Dave Ball reunited in the studio after Dave’s ‘other’ band The Grid (with Richard Norris). They worked with Marc on some tracks from his 1991 Tenement Symphony album, which eventually opened the door for some live Soft Cell dates and a reunion in 2001. As well as this album release in 2002, the band toured the album extensively in the UK, and across Europe and the US, including many festival appearances throughout 2002 and 2003.
The album includes the singles Monoculture and a cover of Frankie Valli & The Four Season’s classic The Night, which became the band’s first Top 40 hit since since 1984.
Most recently in 2018, Soft Cell sold out London’s O2 Arena and were the subject of a career retrospective BBC documentary. They have recently signed to BMG and are currently recording a brand-new album, set for release in 2021. Before then, all of their classic Phonogram-era albums will be reissued in new expanded editions via Universal Music.
Marc Almond commented at the time of the album release ‘I always felt it was an unfinished story, and I’m glad we’re able to write another chapter’.
Dave Ball also commented ‘As soon as we work together, we become Soft Cell, you know’. I don’t know what the magic element is, but it just seems to be there’.
CD 1.
01. Darker Times
02. Monoculture
03. Le Grand Cuignol
04. The Night
05. Last Chance
06. Together Alone
07. Desperate
08. Whatever It Takes
09. All Out Of Love
10. Sensation Nation
11. Caligua Syndrome
12. On An Up
13. Divided Soul
14. God Shaped Hole
15. Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime
16. Dancing Alone
17. Perversity
CD 2.
01. Darker Times (2020 Extended Mix)
02. Together Alone (2020 Extended Mix)
03. Monoculture (2020 Extended Mix)
04. Last Chance (2020 Extended Mix)
05. The Night (Manhattan Clique Remix)
06. Divided Soul (Live 2002)
07. Caligula Syndrome (Live, 2002)
08. The Night (Live, 2002)
09. Monoculture (Live, 2002)
10. Le Grand Guignol (Live, 2002)
11. Together Alone (Live, 2002)
12. Darker Times (Live, 2002)
13. God Shaped Hole (Live, 2002)
14. Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime (Live, 2002)
15. Last Chance (Live at O2 with Mari Wilson, 2018)