Soft Cell have released *Happiness Not Included as the latest single from their fifth studio album.
The track serves as the title song from the LP, due May 6, and follows previous cuts Heart Like Chernobyl and Bruises On All My Illusions.
The LP features 10 new tracks and, according to Dave, “reflects the dreadful government we have at the moment and the levels of hypocrisy and incompetence”.
Marc adds: “In this album, I wanted to look at us as a society, a place where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others.”
“I think it’s very much reflective of what’s going on in the world,” Dave continues. “The fact we had someone like [Donald] Trump in power. We’re not in a very good place globally.
“Whatever your political beliefs are, the state [of the world] isn’t too good. And obviously, with all the global warming and all that sort of stuff going on, it’s not fantastically happy times.”
‘*Happiness Not Included’ is available to pre-order on CD, vinyl and cassette.
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