Soft Cell have announced their final album, Danceteria, which is set for release on September 25. The announcement arrives alongside the album's title track.
Danceteria will serve as the last album from the synth-pop duo of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist Dave Ball. The project will be released posthumously following Ball's death last year at the age of 66.
Dancerteria will feature 12 new tracks plus two bonus tracks on the CD version. The album promises to be an ode to the New York club where the LP gets its title and the city's dance music scene of the early 1980s, a locale and time period that fostered their creativity and in which they recorded their breakout album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, according to a press release.
"Soft Cell have always had a strong connection with New York, and my Soft Cell lyrics often look at America through British eyes," Almond said in a statement. "New York in the 1980s was a particularly creative place for me. It was a pivotal era in terms of changes in my personal life and changes in the city itself. New York shaped Soft Cell as it opened up a whole new world of possibilities."
Soft Cell is currently on "The Generations Tour" with The Human League and Alison Moyet. The duo's last album, 2024's Happiness Now Complete, was a follow-up to 2022's Happiness Not Included.
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