Soft Cell - (PRESALE 9/25/26) Danceteria (CD BIG FROCK BGFK2.2 2026) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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    Danceteria
    Artist: Soft Cell Format: CD Release Date: 9/25/2026 

    Label: Big Frock
    Vendor: Amplified Media Services, LLC
    Distributor: AMPED
    UPC: 5053760153542
    Genre: Dance
    Release Date: 9/25/2026
    Product ID: BGFK2.2
    Weight: .24 lb

CD
Description

The final album is both a love letter to early 80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball.
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. 'Danceteria' the album is a big, classy and playful farewell to 47 years of Marc and Dave making music as Soft Cell and features career-defining performances from our electronic pop legends. Reminiscent of Sparks and Pet Shop Boys and with lyrics Lady Gaga would kill for, the album takes you on a vivid journey through a day in early 80s New York, bouncing round the clock from night to bleary daybreak and headlong back into the club. Marc provides an initial snapshot into the album: "Danceteria is a love letter to New York in the early 80's. The time we spent in New York - where we recorded our first 3 albums - shaped us both as artists and people. To celebrate this period is a fitting farewell to Dave Ball and the final Soft Cell studio album." 'Danceteria' is equally a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball. The final album is one of the last bodies of work Ball co-wrote and produced before his sad, untimely passing on the 22nd of October 2025. Almond led the obituaries, describing Dave as a "brilliant musical genius". The world's media followed, hailing him as an electronic music pioneer, plus music stars including Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys, Mute Records' Daniel Miller, Cabaret Voltaire and Richard Norris from Dave's techno duo The Grid contributing an outpouring of elegiac praise. Dave finished 'Danceteria' two days before he passed away, and it is in full tribute to him that the album release went ahead as planned. It is also because of Dave's passing that 'Danceteria' simply has to be the last Soft Cell album, as Marc explains: 'There can be no more recordings of Soft Cell without Dave, it would not be possible. The sad reality is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and live work aside, I can't write Soft Cell songs without him."

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Elusive
    2 Danceteria
    3 The Space Inside
    4 Times Square
    5 Two of a Kind
    6 The Rainbow Room
    7 In Heaven (When I Dance with You)
    8 Decadence Is Hard Work
    9 Crackland
    10 What Is Your Morality
    11 Losing Yourself
    12 After Hours
    13 Wave to America
    14 Out Come the Freaks

• Condition: NEW
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: CD
• Genre: SYNTH-POP
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 09/25/2026