Marc Almond Returns With New Album

English singer, songwriter and recording artist Marc Almond, who rose to fame in the early 80′s as one half of the Synthpop band Soft Cell, has released a new album titled Varieté.

The first 3,000 copies of Varieté are housed in a limited edition digipak with an exclusive 7-track bonus acoustic CD featuring additional unreleased tracks and a 16 pages booklet.

Speaking about the album, Almond said: “The album deals with the themes of the changing times, a yearning for simplicity, regret at loss, growing older, loneliness through the eyes of a performer, madness, letting go, acceptance, as well as our obsession with nostalgia. For me the past and a sense of history is what gives us soul and humanity, gives us value. I wanted to celebrate nostalgia.”

He continued: “This is a personal record of my own life and the decades I’ve grown through: born in the 1950′s, a child of the 60′s, a troubled teen of the 70′s, a star of the 80′s, a drug casualty of the 90′s, an actual road casualty in the new millennium, and from it a rehabilitated and re-invented person, with a new sense of self.”

Varieté, his first album of self-written songs in over a decade, finds Almond working with long time collaborators Neal Whitmore, Martin Watkins, Dave Ruffy and Carl Holt. Varieté was released July 13, 2010 on Red Cherry Records.