Soft Cell have shared a new video for their recent track Light Sleepers.
Lifted from the duo’s Top 10 album ‘*Happiness Not Included’ – their first LP in two decades – the song was written during the early morning at a café in Los Angeles.
Marc Almond says: “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.”
“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,” adds Dave Ball. “This is one of only two ballads on the album and my favourite song on it”.
Its accompanying visual, directed by Charlie Ann Max, explores the multifaceted experience of being human, with the winner of season seven of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’, Violet Chachki, portraying a young Marc.
In a review of the album, Retro Pop said ‘*Happiness Not Included’ “boasts 12 fabulously Soft Cell numbers, laced with Marc Almond’s lyrical wit and underpinned by standout instrumentation from Dave Ball.”
‘*Happiness Not Included’ is available now.
