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Soft Cell’s last word: the title track of Danceteria, the sixth and final album, Marc Almond and Dave Ball’s love letter to the New York of 1981 – the Manhattan club they wound up in after hours while recording Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. Filed here in February as a Record Store Day 12″ of remixes; the album version followed in June with a collage video by Vicki Bennett, and the album on September 25. Ball finished it two days before he died, in October 2025.
Written by Marc Almond and Dave Ball. Marc Almond: vocals. Dave Ball: music and production. Video by Vicki Bennett. From Danceteria, Republic of Music, 2026. Record Store Day 12″, April 18, 2026: Mark Moore & Dan Donovan remix, Soft Cell extended mix, Soft Cell dub mix. Photograph: Samuel H. Gottscho, New York City views (Times Square at night), 1953. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
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- NMU 260204
- artist
- Soft Cell
- title
- Danceteria
- from
- Danceteria (2026)
- writers
- Marc Almond, Dave Ball
- producer
- Dave Ball
- video
- Vicki Bennett
- label
- Republic of Music
- photograph
- Samuel H. Gottscho, Times Square, 1953. Library of Congress.
- listen
- softcell.co.uk
- filed
- February 4, 2026
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