This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If anyone knows all there is to know about the crying game, it’s Marc Almond.
After eight long years, the Soft Cell co-founder is back in business with Open All Night, a set of dreamy, trip-hoppy Euroballads that sound as far from Tainted Love as Metallica. In spirit, though, he still doesn’t know whether to run from you or for you as he prays at his bedroom shrine, wraps his broken heart in velvet and puts it away for a rainy day. “I’ll always sing a song that’s sad, for all the loves I ever had,” croons Almond. This is what it sounds like when doves cry.
