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BlenderIn updating the duo's dirty old sound, Ball makes the arrangements clunky, too clean and dangerously close to the blandness Almond bemoans. [#10, p.126]
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MixerWhat Cruelty Without Beauty lacks in originality it more than makes up for with sheer wit. [Oct 2002, p.81]
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As before, attempts to explore London's seedy underbelly verge on hamfisted and voyeuristic. But, again as before, Soft Cell really flourish with Marc's relationship horror stories, which happens on two songs.
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TonyBJan 3, 2003
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MikeS.Oct 16, 2002
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BTHONTHONOct 16, 2002