Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Mike Thorne produced. Mediasound in New York was the main studio, Camden Cell in London was used for all but "Tainted Love", which was recorded at Advision, and the pair stayed in a Mediasound-owned Upper West Side apartment during the sessions, as the Quietus oral history records. Brian Moss and Josephine Warden of Vicious Pink sang backing vocals, David Tofani played sax and clarinet, Don Wershba and Paul Hardiman engineered and Harvey Goldberg mixed. The gear included a ReVox tape recorder, a Roland drum machine borrowed from Kit Hain, a Korg SB-100 Synthe Bass and, per Wikipedia, Thorne's NED Synclavier; the Quietus does not confirm the Synclavier on this album. The title comes from a sign on a real Soho strip club. Almond describes it, per Wikipedia in 2026, as a concept album about a suburban man in Soho's red-light scene.

It reached 5 in the UK and 22 on the Billboard 200, 2 in Canada and 7 in New Zealand, and went platinum in the UK and Canada. Melody Maker's Steve Sutherland called it the brashest, most brilliant and least-caring indictment of pop music's bankruptcy I've ever heard; Christgau gave a B-plus; AllMusic gave 4.5 stars, Pitchfork 8.5 and Rolling Stone 3. NME's Gavin Martin was negative. It is in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.