Soft Cell Share ‘Mini Noir’ Single ‘Bruises on My Illusions’ From First Album in 20 Years
Soft Cell have shared their new single “Bruises on My Illusions” from the synth-pop duo’s first album in 20 years, *Happiness Not Included.
Singer Marc Almond and keyboardist Dave Ball — the duo behind Eighties hits like “Tainted Love,” “Sex Dwarf,” and “Bedsitter” — will release their new LP on February 25th, 2022; Soft Cell last released Cruelty Without Beauty in 2002.
Almond said of the new track, “’Bruises on My Illusions’ is a mini film noir Soft Cell story about a disillusioned character with everything against him or her who still has hope for a better future, despite the odds. A darker ‘Bedsitter’. Dave’s ominous yet punchy defiant chords inspired the song.”
Ball added, “One of our darker cinematic pop moments with a classic Marc Almond lyric.”
Both *Happiness Not Included and a 12-inch vinyl single of “Bruises on My Illusions” — featuring remixes of the song and the bonus track “Vapourise” — are available to preorder now. The LP itself tackles subjects like Almond’s disenchantment with the future and the media landscape, as well as the inevitability of death.
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Despite playing their “last ever final show” in 2018 — at the time, their first concert in 15 years — Soft Cell will return to touring once more in 2022 with a handful of U.K. gigs that will *Happiness Not Included tracks alongside a full-album performance of their 1981 classic Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
