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Soft Cell: Reissues

Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1998

THOUGH THEY'RE often lumped in with other early Eighties techno-tarts as shiny and superficial, Soft Cell had a soot-black heart, a vicious edge, and an obsession with themes that troubled Bataille and De Sade.

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