- electronic, pop, synth-pop
- 55 min
- 12 tracks
- Cooking Vinyl
Cruelty Without Beauty is the fourth 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.
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Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Darker Times4:25
- 2Monoculture3:55
- 3Le Grand Guignol4:14
- 4The Night4:16
- 5Last Chance4:31
- 6Together Alone5:46
- 7Desperate4:46
- 8Whatever It Takes4:38
- 9All Out of Love4:59
- 10Sensation Nation4:06
- 11Caligula Syndrome4:51
- 12On an Up4:27
12 tracks, 55 minutes.
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