Soft Cell Announce First New Album In 20 Years

'Happiness Not Included' will be released next year...

*Soft Cell* will release new studio album '*Happiness Not Included' next spring.

The new album is the duo's fifth to date, and follows almost 20 years after their previous LP 'Cruelty Without Beauty' back in 2002.

A short teaser has gone online, which finds Marc Almond and Dave Ball dipping into their grab-bag of sleazy synth pop tricks.

Tune in now.

Discussing the album, Marc Almond comments: "In this album I wanted to look at us as a society: a place where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others. But in the album there is also a belief that there is a utopia if we can peel back the layers and understand what really matters..."

Comrades at arms Dave Ball adds: "Recorded remotely during a world pandemic. Science fiction stories for the 21st century."

Order the album HERE.

Tracklisting:
1. ‘Happy Happy Happy’
2. ‘Polaroid’
3. ‘Bruises On My Illusions’
4. ‘Purple Zone’
5. ‘Heart Like Chernobyl’
6. ‘Light Sleepers’
7. ‘*Happiness Not Included’
8. ‘Nostalgia Machine’
9. ‘Nighthawks’
10. ‘I’m Not A Friend Of God’
11. ‘Tranquiliser’
12. ‘New Eden’

Finally, catch Soft Cell live at the following shows:

*November*
10 *Glasgow* O2 Academy
12 *Manchester* O2 Apollo
13 *Leeds* O2 Academy
15 *London* Hammersmith Apollo
16 *London* Hammersmith Apollo

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