Soft Cell announce '*Happiness Not Included', first new album in 20 years

Earlier this year, Soft Cell – Marc Almond and Dave Ball, announced that they were working on a new album.

And now in some exciting news, the duo have announced some very concrete news that will see the synth-popping, new wave duo deliver their first album since their 2002 LP, Cruelty Without Beauty.

As reported by NME, Almond says that the subject matter for the album and its inspiration is really about looking at how we live as a society.

And of course like a lot of music that has been produced over the last year or so, it was recording remotely due to the pandemic.

Almond refers to the album as “science fiction stories for the 21st century.”

He continued, “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,” Almond added.

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Soft Cell’s most recent song offering was delivered back in 2018, ‘Northern Lights’.

*Happiness Not Included is currently available for pre-order and is due to release early next year on February 25th, 2022.

Check out the track list for *Happiness Not Included:

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’

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