After its difficult completion, the double lp flopped miserably, the press hated it and Almond escaped in Morocco, just wishing to disappear from the face of the Earth (and probably wondering why he had done it). With Torment and Toreros Almond decided to take his artistic freedom completely and moved from the relative straightforward electropop of Soft Cell to new, uncharted territory, trusting only on his own abilities: the recording sessions were long and complicated, the album was filled with (too) many songs, all incessantly swinging about death, dirty love and lost innocence. It was the kind of choice that could be made only on those savage times, when the same singer who sang on Top of the Pops could befriended the naughty boys of Psychic TV. His career has always been, say, erratic: but this album was the move that almost destroyed him. I always thought there was something epic about the period from 1975 to 1984 in England: no Oasis or Travis in sight, many excellent bands playing very different kind of music and a popstar like Soft Cell's Marc Almond proudly trying to reinvent himself after the megasuccess of Tainted Love.
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