Pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell are working on a new album and aim to release it next year. Producer Dave Ball said he and frontman Marc Almond had begun recording music together before the lockdown.
Ball was working on instrumentals with collaborators in east London and Richmond while Almond had been penning lyrics and recording takes in his Soho studio.
Despite lockdown, the pair are continuing work on the as-yet-untitled record from their respective homes. The music would be their first since 2002’s well-received album Cruelty Without Beauty.
Ball told the PA news agency: “We’re working on a new album which is destined to come out next year or hopefully, as long as this pandemic thing subsides and I’m still alive. “I’ve given him