Soft Cell - *Happiness Now Completed - Record Store Day 2025 - (LP Vinyl Album)

Soft Cell - *Happiness Now Completed - Record Store Day 2025 - (LP Vinyl Album)

Due to fan demand, Soft Cell released the companion album to their 2021 Top 10 album *Happiness not included to record stores worldwide on Saturday April 12th 2025.

So fruitful also were the original *Happiness album recording sessions that this collection, titled *Happiness now completed, features ten original Marc Almond and Dave Ball tracks, including previously unreleased mixes and single-only tracks, none of which have appeared on vinyl before. It also includes a previously unheard track, Kill Shot, unavailable until this release.

The album also includes a recently re-recorded version of fan favourite Last Chance, with the addition of a full brass section, plus cover versions of Fad Gadget’s Back To Nature and X-Ray Spex’s The Day The World Turned Day Glo. Lead track First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love was originally recorded by Giorgio Moroder, a huge influence on Soft Cell.

This will be the very last *Happiness release, and is strictly limited to a single pressing of 1000 deluxe vinyl copies worldwide for Record Store Day 2025. Lexer Music has a limited quantity of this release.

Also includes a bonus art print.

Tracklisting

Side One

1. First Hand Experience of Second Hand Love
2. Jukebox Head
3. Quiet Rebellion
4. Strange Kinda Dance (Edit)
5. The Day The World Turned Day Glo
6. Vapourise (Edit)
7. You Kill Me

Side Two

1. Last Chance (2022 Mix Edit)
2. Murder Your Darlings
3. Night and The City (2021 Mix)
4. Gemini Lounge
5. Defiant
6. Back to Nature (Marc’s Mix)
7. Kill Shot

Format: LP Vinyl Album (Record Store Day 2025)
Barcode: 5053760127659
Catalogue Number: ABF8
Label: A Big Frock Rekord
Release Date: Saturday, 12th April 2025