[Cover photo credit to Mike Owen]
Electronic music pioneers Soft Cell, made up of singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, have released a video for new single in “In Heaven (When I Dance With You).”
Out now, this track is the second single taken from Danceteria, Soft Cell’s sixth and final studio album, set for release on September 25, 2026 via Republic of Music.
Created by collage artist Vicki Bennett, the video for “In Heaven (When I Dance With You)” features Marc and Dave in “full electronic dreams mode, performing on a heavenly dancefloor and floating with synths through the clouds.”
Marc Almond says:
‘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 released alongside a UK-only Luv Foundation remix of “Danceteria” as well as the album version of the title track. You can listen to the Luv Foundation “Danceteria” remix here.
Danceteria the album is a farewell to 47 years of Marc and Dave making music as Soft Cell. The album takes you on a 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 on vinyl and CD, with the CD expanding to 14 tracks including 2 bonus tracks in form of “Crackland” and “What Is Your Morality.”
Marc continues:
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 one of the last bodies of work Ball co-wrote and produced before his untimely passing on October 22, 2025. Almond led the obituaries, describing Dave as a “brilliant musical genius”. Musicians 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 contributed an outpouring of praise. Dave finished Danceteria two days before he passed away and it is in tribute to him that the album release went ahead as planned.
It is also because of Dave’s passing that Danceteria 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.
Live Dates:
Nov 8 San Diego, CA The Magnolia
Nov 10 Napa, CA Uptown Theatre
Nov 11 San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
Nov 13 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort/Casino
Nov 14 Huntington Beach, CA Darker Waves
Nov 15 San Luis Obispo, CA Fremont Theater
