SOFT CELL announce new single "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)'" a summery poppy second cut from final album 'Danceteria'.

SOFT CELL  Announce New Single "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" a summery poppy second cut from final album Danceteria Listen here The sixth and final studio album from Marc Almond and Dave Ball will be released on September 25, 2026 via Republic of Music Pre-order Danceteria on vinyl, CD and digital here Danceteria is both a love letter to early '80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/AMMEqfv6tk4?si=aeSQT9MVo_yXQA0u JULY 15, 2026 (New York, NY) -- Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, have announced a new single in "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)." Out today digitally on all platforms, this summery, poppy cut is taken from Danceteria, Soft Cell's sixth and final studio album, which will be released on September 25th via Republic of Music. The song has just been premiered on Vernon Kay's BBC Radio 2 show this morning.   Over to Marc for further insights into the new single:   "'In Heaven (When I Dance With You)' is a celebration of the early '80s joyful disco scene.  A coming together of the sentiments of the time.  I wanted it to be that moment when you run to the dancefloor"   "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" is out today alongside a UK-only Luv Foundation remix and the album version of "Danceteria" title track. Listen to the track above.   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, 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. The 12-track album is available to pre-order now on vinyl and CD, with the CD expanding to 14 tracks including 2 bonus tracks in form of "Crackland" and "What Is Your Morality."   SOFT CELL Photo credit: Mike Owen  Marc provides a snapshot into the album:   "Danceteria is a love letter to New York in the early '80s.  The time we spent in New York - where we recorded our first three 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 October 22, 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."   The new single follows on from last month's launch including "Danceteria" as the lead single, watch the dazzling discotastic video made by artist Vicki Bennett. The single is a joyous, celebratory burst of disco pop and as the album opener, it is a statement of intent. It is Soft Cell at their very best, with Almond's iconic vocals soaring over Ball's masterful John Barry-esque minor chord progressions. There couldn't be a more fitting disco banger to pull back the dusty velvet curtain and beckon you into the heady, romantic and deliciously dark world of "Danceteria."    "Danceteria" is set in the legendary Manhattan nightclub where young Marc and Dave would party until the small hours after the recording sessions for their seminal 1981 debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. This was a life-changing moment for the two art school students from Leeds Polytechnic: Marc and Dave stepped into a world of unbridled creativity and total self-expression in New York, swiftly fitting in and making friends with the most up for it in-crowd at Danceteria. Mirroring its eclectic musical style, Danceteria provided a home for party people from all walks of life, sexualities and recreational appetites, drawn together by the desire to simply be themselves. More than most, the queer community thrived under the disco ball lights, falling in and out of love and dancing until dawn - essential solidarity against well-worn societal prejudices and the existential threat from the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. Within these sweaty club walls, Marc saw Madonna's first ever performance on the Danceteria floor, following a hot tip by a certain Seymour Stein - a moment the queen of pop is also playing tribute to on her own new album Confessions On A Dance Floor: Part II. During that time, Marc and Dave also met Andy Warhol a few times, the subject of "Polaroid" on Soft Cell's fifth studio album, 2022's Happiness not included. The duo recorded their second album 1982's The Art of Falling Apart and the majority of third album 1984's This Last Night In Sodom in New York City, working with engineer and producer Mike Thorne at Mediasound for the first two and Dave Ball producing the third. Additionally, Marc Almond lived in New York periodically over 25 years from the early '80s.   “Soft Cell have always had a strong connection with New York, and my Soft Cell lyrics often look at America through British eyes,” says Marc. “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. It was dirty, dark and dangerous – a real Wild West – but it was also deeply inspiring and exciting. A lot of our original influences came from America anyway: New York punk, Devo, Suicide, Lou Reed, disco and 1960s soul. But New York was like nowhere else on earth. There were 24-hour nightclubs, music, art and underground theatre. It offered a cornucopia of energy and edge, and the lyrics on ‘Danceteria’ reflect that time of my life.”   Earlier in March this year, the first new music released from Danceteria in form of "Out Come The Freaks," a cover of Was (Not Was)' 1981 mutant disco classic, and the album closer no less. The track conjures the hedonist spirit of early '80s Manhattan, captured in this Danceteria floor filler spun by DJ Mark Kamins. The final flourish of glitter to Soft Cell's "Out Come The Freaks" comes courtesy of guest vocals from Nona Hendryx, the iconic singer and one third of Labelle of "Lady Marmalade" fame. "Danceteria," was initially released as an extended mix on limited white 12" vinyl for Record Store Day 2026, along with a classic house rework by Mark Moore and Dan Donovan, plus a dub version.   Danceteria is a love letter to the cultural vibrancy of New York in the 1980s, it’s a fitting tribute to Soft Cell’s creative inception in NYC, Dave’s pioneering electronic genius and an outrageously great, 47-year musical career as one of Britain’s trailblazing sonic forces. Danceteria  tracklisting:   Vinyl: Side A   1) Elusive (Vinyl Edit) 2) Danceteria 3) The Space Inside (Vinyl Edit) 4) Times Square (Vinyl Edit) 5) Two Of A Kind 6) The Rainbow Room (Vinyl Edit) 7) In Heaven (When I Dance With You)   Side B 1) Decadence Is Hard Work 2) Losing Yourself 3) After Hours 4) Wave To America 5) Out Come The Freaks   CD: 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

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