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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: An Oral History Of Soft Cell’s Debut Album

As Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret turns 40, Patrick Clarke speaks to Marc Almond, Dave Ball, and a number of the other key players who crafted Soft Cell's seedy, sleazy, superlative debut album

A Quietus Interview

Memorabilia: Dave Ball Of Soft Cell And The Grid Interviewed

Duncan Seaman speaks to the Soft Cell musician about his life and times on the publication of his autobiography

Anniversary

Sex Music For Gargoyles: Soft Cell’s The Art Of Falling Apart

Three decades after its release, Matthew Lindsay writes an in-depth exploration of Soft Cell's The Art Of Falling Apart, featuring interview contributions from Marc Almond and Dave Ball

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Baker's Dozen

Stir My Teenage Soul: Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor’s Favourite LPs

Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way

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Remembering Dave Ball, by Patrick Clarke

Dave Ball, of Soft Cell and The Grid, should be remembered not as a hitmaker, but as one of the most ceaselessly explorative, pioneering musicians of his generation, says Patrick Clarke

Soft Cell’s Dave Ball Has Died, Aged 66

The synth-pop producer behind hits like 'Tainted Love' and 'Bedsitter' passed away peacefully in his sleep

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Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom

We say goodbye to the Jamaican drummer Sly Dunbar who died at the age of 73 this week, after helping steer the beats of reggae, working globally with everyone from Serge Gainsbourg to Grace Jones

Reviews

Wolf Alice
The Clearing

The award scoopers’ fourth album fails to live up to its bombastic lead single, says JR Moores

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Organic Intelligence LIII: Slovakian Techno

In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Christian Eede shakes tQ with the heavy sounds of 90s and 00s Slovakian techno, and the scene around the U.Club (pictured below)

A Quietus Interview

England is Mine: An Interview with Nadeem Din-Gabisi

On superb new album Offshore, Nadeem Din-Gabisi speaks through a football kit clad alias to explore issues of belonging and identity as a second-generation immigrant in the shadow of empire. He tells Patrick Clarke about imagining a better future, the need to antagonise the far right and much, much more

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