Album artwork for Cruelty Without Beauty by Soft Cell
Album artwork for Cruelty Without Beauty by Soft Cell

Soft Cell’s 2002 reunion album Cruelty Without Beauty reissue in new expanded and remastered 2CD format, as well as being released on vinyl for the very first time.

Long regarded by many fans as an overlooked masterpiece, the album features a lyrical outlook that was as true to Soft Cell’s maturity and perspective back in 2002 as it is relevant and accurate to the world situation in 2020. Harshly honest, fatalistic and bleakly humorous, Cruelty Without Beauty also preserves the band’s highly distinctive and edgy sound, and stands alongside their greatest work. The new 2020 version includes tracks originally destined for the album, but for various reasons not on the final cut. It also includes brand new 2020 versions of album highlights Monoculture, Together Alone, Darker Times and Last Chance, updated this year by Dave Ball. Also included are a number of unreleased live versions of album tracks, plus rare remixes.

LP Track Listing: Darker Times / Monoculture / Le Grand Cuignol / The Night / Last Chance / Together Alone / Desperate / Whatever It Takes / All Out Of Love / Sensation Nation / Caligua Syndrome / On An Up

CD1 Track Listing: Darker Times / Monoculture / Le Grand Cuignol / The Night / Last Chance / Together Alone / Desperate / Whatever It Takes / All Out Of Love / Sensation Nation / Caligua Syndrome / On An Up + Divided Soul / God Shaped Hole / Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime / Dancing Alone / Perversity

CD2 Darker Times (2020 Extended Mix) / Together Alone (2020 Extended Mix) / Monoculture (2020 Extended Mix) / Last Chance (2020 Extended Mix) / The Night (Manhattan Clique Remix) / Divided Soul (Live 2002) / Caligula Syndrome (Live, 2002) / The Night (Live, 2002) / Monoculture (Live, 2002) / Le Grand Guignol (Live, 2002) / Together Alone (Live, 2002) / Darker Times (Live, 2002) / God Shaped Hole (Live, 2002) / Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime (Live, 2002) / Last Chance (Live, 2002)

Soft Cell

Cruelty Without Beauty

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Album artwork for Cruelty Without Beauty by Soft Cell
CDx2

£14.99

Expanded Version with Book.

Released 04/12/2020Catalogue Number

ABF5CD

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Soft Cell

Cruelty Without Beauty

Big Frock
Album artwork for Cruelty Without Beauty by Soft Cell
CDx2

£14.99

Expanded Version with Book.

Released 04/12/2020Catalogue Number

ABF5CD

Learn more

Soft Cell’s 2002 reunion album Cruelty Without Beauty reissue in new expanded and remastered 2CD format, as well as being released on vinyl for the very first time.

Long regarded by many fans as an overlooked masterpiece, the album features a lyrical outlook that was as true to Soft Cell’s maturity and perspective back in 2002 as it is relevant and accurate to the world situation in 2020. Harshly honest, fatalistic and bleakly humorous, Cruelty Without Beauty also preserves the band’s highly distinctive and edgy sound, and stands alongside their greatest work. The new 2020 version includes tracks originally destined for the album, but for various reasons not on the final cut. It also includes brand new 2020 versions of album highlights Monoculture, Together Alone, Darker Times and Last Chance, updated this year by Dave Ball. Also included are a number of unreleased live versions of album tracks, plus rare remixes.

LP Track Listing: Darker Times / Monoculture / Le Grand Cuignol / The Night / Last Chance / Together Alone / Desperate / Whatever It Takes / All Out Of Love / Sensation Nation / Caligua Syndrome / On An Up

CD1 Track Listing: Darker Times / Monoculture / Le Grand Cuignol / The Night / Last Chance / Together Alone / Desperate / Whatever It Takes / All Out Of Love / Sensation Nation / Caligua Syndrome / On An Up + Divided Soul / God Shaped Hole / Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime / Dancing Alone / Perversity

CD2 Darker Times (2020 Extended Mix) / Together Alone (2020 Extended Mix) / Monoculture (2020 Extended Mix) / Last Chance (2020 Extended Mix) / The Night (Manhattan Clique Remix) / Divided Soul (Live 2002) / Caligula Syndrome (Live, 2002) / The Night (Live, 2002) / Monoculture (Live, 2002) / Le Grand Guignol (Live, 2002) / Together Alone (Live, 2002) / Darker Times (Live, 2002) / God Shaped Hole (Live, 2002) / Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime (Live, 2002) / Last Chance (Live, 2002)