Cruelty Without Beauty Explained

Cruelty Without Beauty
Type:	studio
Artist:	Soft Cell
Cover:	Soft Cell - Cruelty Without Beauty Coverart.jpg
Released:	8 October 2002
Recorded:	2002
Genre:	Synthpop
Length:	54:56
Label:	Cooking Vinyl COOK CD245 Spin Art SPART 116
Producer:	Dave Ball, Ingo Vauk
Prev Title:	This Last Night in Sodom
Prev Year:	1984
Next Title:	The Bedsit Tapes
Next Year:	2005

Cruelty Without Beauty is the fourth^[1] studio album by Soft Cell. The album was released on 8 October 2002. It is Soft Cell's first album since 1984's This Last Night in Sodom. An expanded and remastered re-issue of the album was released on 25 September 2020. It included new remixes by Dave Ball, 4 of which were released as a limited white vinyl 12-inch single. The album was also released on vinyl for the first time.^[2]

Track listing

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

1. "Darker Times" (Marc Almond, David Ball, Ingo Vauk)
2. "Monoculture"
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

Soft Cell

• Marc Almond – vocals, backing vocals, arrangement
• Dave Ball – electronic instruments, additional backing vocals

with:

• Dominic Glover – trumpet
• Nicol D. Thomson – trombone
• Mike Smith – saxophone
• Chris Braide – backing vocals

Technical

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Soft Cell working on new album 'destined to come out next year'.
2. Web site: Cruelty Without Beauty – 2020 Expanded Reissue.