Open All Night (Marc Almond album)

Background

Following the moderate success of Fantastic Star Almond left his record label and released Open All Night on Blue Star Music, an independent label he founded for the purpose. The album features collaborations with Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie (from The Creatures) on the track "Threat of Love" and with Kelli Ali, who was at that time the lead vocalist of the band Sneaker Pimps, on the track "Almost Diamonds". "Tragedy", "Black Kiss" and "My Love" were released as singles, but they did not chart.

The American release of the album came with the bonus track "Beautiful Losers".

Critical reception

The NME describe the songs on Open All Night as inhabiting "an evocative Brel-meets-Barry landscape" with a "midnight blue melancholy". Touching on similar themes the review from Hot Press describes Open All Night's "lush decadence and tragic dissolution". Elsewhere, reviewer Keith Phipps in his review for The A.V. Club magazine states that "Almond's songs have a creepy, dark quality" on this album.

Track listing

1. "Night & Dark" (Marc Almond, Neal Whitmore) – 6:10
2. "Bedroom Shrine" (Almond, Oskar Paul) – 4:32
3. "Tragedy (Take a Look and See)" (Almond, Whitmore) – 5:01
4. "Black Kiss" (Almond, Whitmore) – 3:35
5. "Almost Diamonds" (Almond, Whitmore, Kelli Ali) – 5:16
6. Guest Appearance Kelli Ali
7. "Scarlet Bedroom" (Almond, John Green) – 3:06
8. "My Love" (Almond, Whitmore) – 3:45
9. "Heart in Velvet" (Almond, Whitmore) – 4:14
10. "Open All Night" (Almond, Whitmore) – 5:20
11. "Threat of Love" (Almond, Whitmore) – 4:41
12. Guest Appearance: The Creatures (Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie)
13. "Bad People Kiss" (Almond, Douglass) – 3:34
14. "Sleepwalker" (Almond, Whitmore) – 4:19
15. "Midnight Soul" (Almond) – 3:51

1. "Beautiful Losers" (Almond)  – 4:57

Personnel