Soft Cell announce super deluxe boxset, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

In the four decades since its release, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret has been revered by artists such as Trent Reznor and sampled by the likes of Rihanna, and remains an icon of electronic music. The forthcoming six-CD, 98-track Super Deluxe Edition is the ultimate version of the album and features 40 unreleased pieces.

Initially released in November 1981, the ten-track song cycle, in the words of Marc Almond, “Tells a story of a bored ordinary bloke seething with his life wanting more and looking for excitement and adventure in a red neon lit Soho world of red-light cabarets, prostitutes and sex dwarves, looking back at his youth and wondering what happened.”

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret contained three of the most significant singles of the decade; "Tainted Love" (the best-selling UK single of 1981), "Bedsitter" and "Say Hello Wave Goodbye". Dave Ball recalls making the album as “All very weird and extreme, from living in a council flat and suddenly you're flying on Concorde to New York” Looking back, Ball says “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret was the first period of Soft Cell, really. It was our pop period, and by 1982 we were done and dusted with that. The next one, was much darker.”