Cruelty Without Beauty
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| Cruelty Without Beauty | ||||
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| Released | 8 October 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Synth-pop | |||
| Length | 54:56 | |||
| Label | Cooking Vinyl COOK CD245 Spin Art SPART 116 | |||
| Producer | Dave Ball, Ingo Vauk | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 70/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Blender | [1] |
| Robert Christgau |  [3] |
| Hot Press | 8.5/10[4] |
| NME | Mixed[5] |
| Release Magazine | [6] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
| Q | [1] |
| Uncut | [8] |
Cruelty Without Beauty is the fourth[9] studio album by Soft Cell. The album was released on 8 October 2002. It is Soft Cell's first album since 1984's This Last Night in Sodom. An expanded and remastered re-issue of the album was released on 25 September 2020. It included new remixes by Dave Ball, 4 of which were released as a limited white vinyl 12-inch single. The album was also released on vinyl for the first time.[10]
