Soft Cell parted amicably in 1984 to pursue solo projects. They went on to record four albums and their single ‘Tainted Love’ broke all records as the track that remained the longest in the US Billboard Top 100 and received a Brit award for best single of that year. Marc met David Ball at Leeds Art College and formed the internationally successful 'electro duo' Soft Cell in 1979. He has sold over 30 million records worldwide and is an icon and influence to a generation of musicians.
Some of his most effective moments appear throughout the collection (benefiting from co-production by Flood, one of the English producer's first major efforts), including another Brel cover, "The Bulls," the frenetic and aptly titled "A Million Manias," and a lovely take on Peter Hammill's "Vision." This is not a starting point for new fans, but a singular kind of album: One for the true Almond obsessive.Born in Southport in 1957, Marc Almond is an internationally acclaimed music artist. Though often great, once you hit "Catch a Fallen Star" and its snarling, obscenity-laden take on fame, clearly the unexpected pop star of "Tainted Love" has absented himself. Matched by an expanded Mambas lineup, including a string quartet featuring rock journeyman Martin McCarrick in one of his earliest appearances, Almond swings from slow weepers over lost innocence, sexual and otherwise, to frantic explosions of lyrical bile.
It isn't so much length as it is subject matter, though informed by his consistent bitterness with the industry as experienced via the soon to implode Soft Cell, the sheer self-loathing and unrestrained anger have never been paralleled by any of his other releases. If there's any acid test for being a Marc Almond fanatic, it would have to be Torment & Toreros, originally a double album and still the longest thing he's yet released.
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