Strange As Angels: Chrystabell Sings The Cure, Deluxe Edition

The Deluxe Edition of the album "Chrystabell Sings The Cure" (Mhodì Music Company) is released today digitally in Italy.

16 tracks in which Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague) and Chrysta Bell -- singer-songwriter, model, actress, and David Lynch's captivating muse -- breathe new life into The Cure's songs.

A musical project called Strange As Angels, in which the duo reinvents The Cure's most classic tracks, enriching them with Collin's expert production and Chrystabell's hypnotic and sensual voice.

The tracklist explores nearly the entire Cure discography in chronological order, revisiting the best hits from Robert Smith's band -- "Just Like Heaven", "Drowning Man", "Charlotte Sometimes", "Friday I'm In Love", "A Forest", and "Lullaby" -- capturing the full emotional range of the band: from optimism to melancholy, from darkness to joy, from depth to lightness.

Marc Collin's Vision

Chrysta Bell chose to learn every nuance of Robert Smith before reinterpreting him. The result is pure devotion to melody. This project was a vision for me: I imagined Chrysta Bell alone on stage, singing these songs. With her history of collaborations with David Lynch, Chrysta Bell adds a cinematic depth to her performance. Like Lynch, who refuses to explain the mysteries of his work, her voice evokes a sense of surreal ambiguity, both organic and otherworldly, all at the same time.

A Gothic Orchestral Noir

Produced, arranged, and designed by Marc Collin, this collection of Cure covers is masterfully woven and illuminated in the twilight glow so dear to the Nouvelle Vague founder.

For the first time, Collin crafted the arrangements as a bridge between the worlds of Lynch and The Cure, blending strings, percussion, and the first electronic instrument, the Therminovox, into a splendid gothic noir (in the vein of Bernhard Hermann or Edgar Varese): the result is an orchestral sound evoking 1930s film scores.