Soft Cell have announced their sixth and final studio album, Danceteria, following the 2025 death of the duo’s instrumentalist Dave Ball. As a preview, they’ve today released the eponymous single. Stream it below.
Dancerteria is scheduled for release September 25th from Republic of Music records and will feature 12 new tracks plus two bonus tracks on the CD version. Fans can pre-order the album here. 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. Danceteria is also a tribute to Ball, who finished the album two days before his death last year.
“Soft Cell have always had a strong connection with New York, and my Soft Cell lyrics often look at America through British eyes,” Marc Almond, singer of Soft Cell, 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.”
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Soft Cell’s also unveiled the single “Danceteria,” a hazy, electronic dance trip built by layered synthesizers filling the frequencies with sub-rattling bass, distorted melodic lines, and minor chords while Almond relives the flashing lights and cameos of his memories in Manhattan clubs at a seminal moment in his life close to 45 years ago. It’s a synthpop swirl with dark wave and disco.
Soft Cell is currently on “The Generations Tour” with The Human League and Alison Moyet. Fans can get tickets here.
The duo’s last album, 2024’s Happiness Now Complete, was a follow up to 2022’s Happiness Not Included. That record commenced a comeback for Soft Cell, who hadn’t put out an LP for 20 years with that gap following a two decade departure starting in 1983. This latter chapter of the band’s career was cut short by Ball’s death in October 2025.
The Human League, Soft Cell, and Alison Moyet 2026 Tour Dates:
06/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Buttle Garden Amphitheatre
06/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau Las Vegas
06/13 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheatre
06/16 – Dallas, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre
06/17 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
06/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
06/20 – Charlotte, NC @ The Amp Ballantyne
06/21 – Nashville, TN @ Grand Ol Opry
06/23 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre
06/24 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Detroit
06/26 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
06/27 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre
06/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
06/30 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center
07/01 – Northfield, OH @ MGM Northfield
07/02 – Niagara Falls, ON @ Fallsview Casino Resort