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Soft Cell Announce Details of Final Album, Danceteria
The 12-track album was completed shortly before Dave Ball's death and includes a title-track video by collage artist Vicki Bennett.
- Electronic pop duo Soft Cell will release their final studio album, Danceteria, on September 25, 2026, which vocalist Marc Almond described as a "love letter to New York in the early '80s."
- The album marks a posthumous release following the death of instrumentalist Dave Ball last October at age 66, who completed the project just two days before he passed away.
- Mirroring the hedonistic spirit of Manhattan's early 1980s club scene, the record draws from the duo's time recording in the city, reflecting a pivotal era of "unbridled creativity" and total self-expression.
- While Soft Cell continues the Generations Tour in North America through July, Almond confirmed this album marks the group's final recording, stating, "There can be no more recordings of Soft Cell without Dave."
- Danceteria serves as a playful farewell to 47 years of collaboration between Marc Almond and Dave Ball, cementing the electronic pioneers' legacy celebrated by contemporaries including the Pet Shop Boys.
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Soft Cell’s latest studio album, Danceteria, will serve as an emotional and “appropriate farewell” to the late musician Dave Ball, according to bandmate Marc Almond.
·Mexico
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The Independent (US)Soft Cell’s last album ‘a fitting farewell to Dave Ball’
·London, United Kingdom
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Yorkshire Evening PostSoft Cell announce details of final album, Danceteria
Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, are set to release Danceteria, their sixth and final studio album, on the September 25 via Republic of Music.
·Leeds, United Kingdom
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