Marc Almond

Since the split of synth pop duo Soft Cell in 1984, singer/songwriter Marc Almond has pursued a solo career that allows his multi-dimensional theatrical and musical personas a creative freedom his former band couldn't. Almond's reedy yet emotionally resonant voice tends to waver around notes rather than hitting them and completely inhabits songs so as to become inseparable from them. Between 1982 and 1987, he issued three albums with the Willing Sinners -- including the seminal Stories of Johnny -- that depicted him as an aesthetic descendant and modern incarnation of the pre-...