Post-punk, new wave, goth, alternative – for over four decades The Cure created alternative music so powerful that it redefined the mainstream. They didn’t just master genres, they transcended them. Throughout these varied styles, the group maintained an aesthetic continuity, creating a world so vast and mysterious that there’s room for other artists to explore it.

And explore it he does on Strange as Angels, Marc Collin’s new collection of reinvented Cure songs, sung by the ethereal Chrystabell. Produced, arranged and conceived by Nouvelle Vague co-founder Marc Collin, he has again woven repertoire, performance, and his uniquely forged arranging aesthetic into something authentically new.

This is the first record Collin has devoted to one band and one vocalist. “For me it was like a vision,” said Collin, “I imagined Chrystabell alone on stage, singing these songs.” With her history of collaborations with David Lynch, Chrystabell adds a cinematic depth to her performance. Like Lynch, who refuses to explain away the mysteries in his work, her voice conjures a sense of surreal ambiguity, both organic and otherworldly, all at the same time.

Tracklist:

1. Three Imaginary Boys
2. Seventeen Seconds
3. A Forest
4. The Drowning Man
5. Charlotte Sometimes
6. One Hundred Years
7. The Walk
8. Dressing Up
9. A Night Like This
10. Just Like Heaven
11. Lullaby
12. Friday I'm In Love
13. Lost