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Cruelty Without Beauty

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Released
  
8 October 2002

Length
  
54:56

Artist
  
Soft Cell

Label
  
Cooking Vinyl

Recorded
  
2002

Producer
  
Dave Ball, Ingo Vauk

Release date
  
8 October 2002

Genres
  
Synthpop, Rock music

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Cruelty Without Beauty (2002)
  
The Bedsit Tapes (2005)

Similar
  
Soft Cell albums, Synthpop albums

Darker times


Cruelty Without Beauty is the fourth studio album by Soft Cell. The album was released on 8 October 2002. It's Soft Cell's first album since 1984's This Last Night in Sodom.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Marc Almond and David Ball unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Darker Times"
  2. "Monoculture" (Marc Almond, David Ball, Ingo Vauk)
  3. "Le Grand Guignol"
  4. "The Night" (Bob Gaudio, Al Ruzicka)
  5. "Last Chance"
  6. "Together Alone"
  7. "Desperate"
  8. "Whatever It Takes"
  9. "All Out of Love"
  10. "Sensation Nation"
  11. "Caligula Syndrome"
  12. "On an Up"

Personnel

  • Marc Almond – vocals, backing vocals, arrangement
  • Dave Ball – electronic instruments, additional backing vocals
  • Dominic Glover – trumpet
  • Nicol D Thomson – trombone
  • Mike Smith – saxophone
  • Chris Braide – backing vocals
  • Layout – Grace Van Detta
  • Engineer – Ingo Vauk
  • Assistant mix engineer – Haicong Guo
  • Mastering – Dave Blackman
  • Photography – Evelyn
  • Producer – Dave Ball, Ingo Vauk
  • Programming – Ingo Vauk
  • Additional help – Antti Uusimaki, Philip Bagenal

    • Songs

    1Darker Times4:25
    2Monoculture3:55
    3Le Grand Guignol4:14

    References

    Cruelty Without Beauty Wikipedia
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