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Soft Cell: The Art Of Falling Apart

Barney Hoskyns, NME, 15 January 1983

YOUTH IS skin deep in a sleep... and out of work. Some pop stars accept this and let it go, some drone in statistics. Other pop stars are, er, out of work. But it takes Soft Cell to make music which actually reaches out to soothe and comfort. It takes Soft Cell to offer us love.

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