Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
ARTIST: Marc Almond
RELEASES: Untitled, Torment & Toreros, Vermin in Ermine, Stories of Johnny, Mother Fist & Her Five Daughters
BACKSTORY: Five of the former Soft Cell leader’s ’80s albums — the first two billed as Marc and the Mambas, and the latter three with backing band The Willing Sinners — receive straight-up reissues this week in the U.K.
BUY THEM: Untitled, Torment & Toreros, Vermin in Ermine, Stories of Johnny, Mother Fist & Her Five Daughters
Damn, great to see these are getting a proper treatment. It’s clearly his best material. Purely beautiful creativity with a touch of the macabre….