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A re-issue of Marc AlmondÆs 11th solo album, æStranger ThingsÆ, from 2001 as part of his 65th year celebration.A deluxe three disc, newly expanded 2022 edition.Containing no less than 32 bonus tracks across discs two and three including original song demos, remixes, rarities, alternative versions and live renditions of æStranger ThingsÆ album tracks recorded around the time of the albumÆs sessions.Issued in miniature LP style packaging with three inner sleeve wallets and a 32 page lyric booklet.æStranger ThingsÆ was a celebrated collaboration between Marc Almond and the much- missed mercurial talent of Icelandic producer and arranger J¾hann J¾hannsson (Lhooq, Dip, Hafler Trio...) which gave the album a consciously cinematic musical coherence with its signature melodramatic and soaring string arrangements to the fore.Deftly combining elements of Gothic tinged Synth Pop and orchestral grandeur, the album provoked much eulogising on its original release; Ian Shirley writing in Record Buyer in 2001 that, ôThis is a brilliant album. Lush, orchestral and with a delightful contemporary rhythmic sheen, it sounds like the soundtrack to an imaginary James Bond film. Almond is in torch mode playing Shirley Bassey. This is no put downà he sings with an emotional depth that is very moving.ö