synffSoft Cell, the UK synth-pop duo of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball, fused Northern soul's gritty pulse with Kraftwerk's electro precision and Jacques Brel's cabaret drama into a darkly glamorous electronic sound.
Forming in 1980 from Leeds art-school experiments, they exploded…
5 roots·13 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Soft Cell; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Marc Almond, Andy Warhol, Daniel Miller, Jacques Brel + 1 more
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6 releases·2022-2025
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