Electronic music pioneers Soft Cell release a super deluxe reissue of their classic 1983 album The Art Of Falling Apart via Universal Music. Soft Cell’s – aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball – second album is freshly remastered by Barry Grint from the original tapes and shows off the feted duo’s gothic take on pop music in all its full, darkly textured glory. Following directly on from 1982’s seminal one-of-the-first remix albums ‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’, ‘The Art Of Falling Apart’ reached No. 5 on the UK charts. As befits an album celebrating difference and choosing art over the glitzy 80s pop dream, ‘The Art Of Falling Apart’ gloriously twists and turns between anger, frustration and destruction to beauty, reflection and unity.
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After expanding their debut album for a box set in 2023, Soft Cell revisit the next entry in their discography: the remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. The collection comes back to two CDs with a host of bonus material, including vintage non-LP singles and remixes plus a host of rare promo remixes issued in the last decade.
…After Marc Almond and David Bell burst onto the scene with 1981’s Non-Stop Erotic Dancing – which featured a synth-forward cover of Gloria Jones’ Northern soul classic “Tainted Love” that became a worldwide No. 1 and opened the floodgates for synthpop and New Wave on the American charts – Soft Cell had intentions of recording new material for their sophomore album with a most unlikely ally: Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.