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, on September 25, 2026.
 
Listen to first proper single, the album’s title track through the dazzling discotastic video made by collage artist Vicki Bennett at the link above. Out today, the title track is a joyous, celebratory burst of disco pop and as the album opener and a statement of intent. It is Soft Cell at their very best with Almond’s iconic vocals soaring over Dave’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 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 that 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 two bonus tracks: “Crackland” and “What Is Your Morality.”
 
Marc provides an initial 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 the 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 GENERATIONS TOUR
Featuring The Human League, Soft Cell and Alison Moyet

Jun 11 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre SOLD OUT
Jun 12 Las Vegas, NV Fontainebleau Las Vegas SOLD OUT
Jun 13 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
Jun 16 Dallas, TX Texas Trust CU Theatre
Jun 17 New Orleans Saenger Theatre
Jun 19 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
Jun 20 Charlotte, NC The Amp Ballantyne
Jun 21 Nashville, TN Grand Ol Opry
Jun 23 Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre SOLD OUT
Jun 24 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Detroit
Jun 26 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall SOLD OUT
Jun 27 Boston, MA Wang Theatre
Jun 28 Philadelphia, PA The Met Philadelphia
Jun 30 Vienna, VA Filene Center
Jul 1 Northfield, OH MGM Northfield
Jul 2 Niagara, ON Fallsview Casino Resort SOLD OUT