Three CD set. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of Marc Almond's 11th solo album, Stranger Things (2001). Containing no less than 32 bonus tracks across discs two and three including original song demos, remixes, rarities, alternative versions and live renditions of Stranger Things album tracks recorded around the time of the album's sessions. Issued in miniature LP style packaging with three inner sleeve wallets and a 32 page lyric booklet. Stranger Things was a celebrated collaboration between Marc Almond and the much- missed mercurial talent of Icelandic producer and arranger Jóhann Jóhannsson (Lhooq, Dip, Hafler Trio...) which gave the album a consciously cinematic musical coherence with it's signature melodramatic and soaring string arrangements to the fore. Deftly combining elements of Gothic tinged Synth Pop and orchestral grandeur, the album provoked much eulogizing on it's original release; Ian Shirley writing in Record Buyer in 2001 that, "This is a brilliant album. Lush, orchestral and with a delightful contemporary rhythmic sheen, it sounds like the soundtrack to an imaginary James Bond film. Almond is in torch mode playing Shirley Bassey. This is no put down... he sings with an emotional depth that is very moving. "
1 The Guilt of My Secret Marc Almond with Laska Omnia
2 Passion and Pain Marc Almond with Laska Omnia
3 Our Love, My Love
4 I'm the Boy (Boy Toy) Marc Almond with Trash Palace
5 Âme Caline
6 Give in
7 The Beautiful Light of Madness (Original Demo)
8 Suburban Opera (Original Demo)
9 Moonbathe Skin (Original Demo)
10 Under Your Wing (Original Demo)
11 Smoke (Original Demo)
12 Dark Is My World (Demo Version)
13 Fur (Original Demo)
14 The Exhibitionist (Original Demo)
15 Fur (Produced & Replayed By Jóhann)
16 Fur (Replicant Mix)
17 Fur (Keen K Remix)
18 Fur (Divider Remix)
- Disc 3 -
1 Glorious (Radio Edit)
2 Under Your Wing (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
3 Moonbathe Skin (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
4 Our Love, My Love (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
5 When It's Your Time (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
6 Born to Cry (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
7 I Created Me (Live - Union Chapel, 2000)
8 Under Your Wing (Live - Leicester Cathedral, 2000) 9 Moonbathe Skin (Live - Wilton's Music Hall, 2008)
9 End in Tears (Live - Almeida Theatre, 2004)
10 Amo Vitam (Remastered 2018) Rosenstolz & Marc Almond
11 Total Eclipse (Long Version - Remastered 2018) Rosenstolz & Marc Almond
12 All My Angels Falling Pyx-Lax & Marc Almond
13 Dark Age of Love (Original Mix) Mad Drivers Feat. Marc Almond
Three CD set. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of Marc Almond's 11th solo album, Stranger Things (2001). Containing no less than 32 bonus tracks across discs two and three including original song demos, remixes, rarities, alternative versions and live renditions of Stranger Things album tracks recorded around the time of the album's sessions. Issued in miniature LP style packaging with three inner sleeve wallets and a 32 page lyric booklet. Stranger Things was a celebrated collaboration between Marc Almond and the much- missed mercurial talent of Icelandic producer and arranger Jóhann Jóhannsson (Lhooq, Dip, Hafler Trio...) which gave the album a consciously cinematic musical coherence with it's signature melodramatic and soaring string arrangements to the fore. Deftly combining elements of Gothic tinged Synth Pop and orchestral grandeur, the album provoked much eulogizing on it's original release; Ian Shirley writing in Record Buyer in 2001 that, "This is a brilliant album. Lush, orchestral and with a delightful contemporary rhythmic sheen, it sounds like the soundtrack to an imaginary James Bond film. Almond is in torch mode playing Shirley Bassey. This is no put down... he sings with an emotional depth that is very moving. "