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Orpheus In Exile: The Songs Of Vadim Kozin

Marc Almond

Orpheus In Exile: The Songs Of Vadim Kozin

The ex-Soft Cell singer's latest chanson project: songs by the persecuted gay Russian tenor

Label
Cherry Red
UK Release date
08/09/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    That he continues to dodge the cosy 80s pop nostalgia circuit and lazy national treasure status that could so easily be his, preferring to produce work as unusual and essential as this, would be praise-worthy even if the end result were a noble failure. But Orpheus In Exile is both a career highlight and a unique window on a marginalised and hidden history
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  2. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    With its odes to soldiers, tragic tales of fallen women and melodramatic nostalgia for lost youth, Orpheus In Exile is hugely enjoyable, if predictable to anyone already familiar with Almond's chanson repertoire
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

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