SOFT CELL NEWS
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Soft Cell have today announced the release of a double A-side single ‘Light Sleepers’ and ‘Last Chance’.
‘Light Sleepers’, a highlight track of the ‘*Happiness Not Included’ album, features a corresponding music video that explores the multifaceted experience of being human. Directed by Charlie Ann Max, a multidisciplinary artist creating works centred on vulnerability, expansion and connection, the video demonstrates a process through which we can find the most fulfilled versions of ourselves – by having love and compassion for all parts of ourselves, even our ‘shadows’. Starring esteemed performer and winner of season 7 of the American RuPaul’s Drag Race, Violet Chachki, Violet portrays a young Marc Almond experiencing the process of self-acceptance displayed using motifs of ‘darkness’ (shadow) and ‘lightness’ (persona).
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With lyrics written in an early morning café in Los Angeles, Marc Almond comments, “Light Sleepers is one of my favourite tracks on the new album, I love Gary Barnacle’s sax part and Dave’s dreamy early morning chords”. Dave Ball adds “I was working with my friend Jon Savage, a concert pianist, in his garden studio in Essex and really wanted to do something quasi-orchestral and pastoral sounding. This is one of only two ballads on the album and my favourite song on it”.
The double A side also features a brand-new Christmas re-recording of a track from Soft Cell’s previous album ‘Cruelty Without Beauty’. A huge fan favourite, and according to Marc Almond, ‘the natural successor to Say Hello, Wave Goodbye and one of my preferred Soft Cell songs period, why was this never a single?’, ‘Last Chance’ has been re- reworked by Dave Ball and album producer Philip Larsen, and is now adorned with a full live brass section and added Christmas sparkle, with the upcoming festive season firmly in mind.
A CD featuring the Christmas mix of ‘Last Chance’, alongside ‘Light Sleepers’, as well as extended versions of both tracks is also now available to pre-order exclusively from lexermusic.com. Limited to just 1000 copies worldwide, the CD also includes a Soft Cell Christmas card featuring the Last Chance artwork. A 12” vinyl of Light Sleepers will also follow in 2023.