The Art of Falling Apart

by Soft Cell

The Art of Falling Apart cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1983
  • Label: Some Bizzare
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 7:52:14
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: John Gatchell, Dave Ball

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Deliberately sabotaging their massive pop stardom, Soft Cell plunged into sleazy, drug-fueled urban paranoia on their masterfully bleak second album. Marc Almond's highly passionate, dramatic tales of illicit romance and anxiety are propelled by Dave Ball鈥檚 dark, heavily rhythmic synthesizer throbs, making 'The Art of Falling Apart' a profoundly nocturnal, melancholic triumph.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic, synth, electronic, dystopian

Tracklist

  1. Forever The Same (4:59)
  2. Where The Heart Is (4:30)
  3. Numbers (4:57)
  4. Heat (6:13)
  5. Kitchen Sink Drama (3:56)
  6. Baby Doll (6:48)
  7. Loving You, Hating Me (4:17)
  8. The Art Of Falling Apart (5:01)
  9. Martin (10:13)
  10. Hendrix Medley (10:23)
  11. It's A Mug's Game (5:25)
  12. Barriers (5:23)
  13. Loving You, Hating Me (7:43)
  14. Forever The Same (10:55)
  15. Where The Heart Is (9:43)
  16. Numbers (10:21)
  17. Heat (6:03)
  18. Kitchen Sink Drama (5:26)
  19. Baby Doll - 2025 Extended Version (6:46)
  20. Loving You, Hating Me (6:38)
  21. The Art Of Falling Apart (8:47)
  22. It's A Mug's Game (8:09)
  23. Barriers (7:04)
  24. Ghost Rider - 2025 Version (6:23)
  25. Martin - The Hacker 2025 Remix (7:54)
  26. It's A Mug's Game - Dave Ball 2025 Re-Eq Version (8:10)
  27. Where The Heart Is (8:54)
  28. Baby Doll (5:01)
  29. Barriers (7:08)
  30. Martin (6:12)
  31. Where The Heart Is (5:44)
  32. The Art Of Falling Apart (6:16)
  33. Barriers (5:40)
  34. Heat - Yer Man Alternative Remix (7:09)
  35. Martin (5:10)
  36. Forever The Same (5:05)
  37. Where The Heart Is (4:28)
  38. Numbers (3:44)
  39. Heat (6:02)
  40. Kitchen Sink Drama (4:04)
  41. Baby Doll (6:23)
  42. Loving You, Hating Me (3:47)
  43. The Art Of Falling Apart (4:32)
  44. Numbers (4:43)
  45. Heat (3:16)
  46. Ghost Rider (5:10)
  47. Numbers (4:18)
  48. Heat (4:02)
  49. Baby Doll - Non (7:04)
  50. Numbers - Non (5:26)
  51. Barriers (4:24)
  52. Forever The Same - Instrumental (4:55)
  53. Where The Heart Is - Instrumental (4:39)
  54. Numbers - Instrumental (3:47)
  55. Heat - Instrumental (6:03)
  56. Kitchen Sink Drama - Instrumental (4:28)
  57. Baby Doll - Instrumental (5:43)
  58. Loving You, Hating Me - Instrumental (3:51)
  59. The Art Of Falling Apart - Instrumental (5:47)
  60. It's a Mug's Game - 12" Version / Instrumental (8:10)
  61. Martin - 2025 Dub Mix (6:26)
  62. Hendrix Medley - Instrumental (10:17)
  63. Barriers - Instrumental (7:10)
  64. Ghost Rider (6:25)
  65. Forever The Same (4:55)
  66. Where The Heart Is - Live At The Hammersmith Apollo, UK / 16th November 2021 (4:55)
  67. Numbers (3:54)
  68. Heat (5:18)
  69. Kitchen Sink Drama - Live At The Hammersmith Apollo, UK / 16th November 2021 (4:37)
  70. Baby Doll (6:05)
  71. Loving You, Hating Me (3:53)
  72. The Art Of Falling Apart (5:49)
  73. Martin (6:27)
  74. Barriers (5:10)
  75. Hey Joe / Purple Haze (7:42)
  76. It鈥檚 A Mug鈥檚 Game (7:50)
  77. Ghost Rider (6:28)
  78. Numbers (5:07)

Credits

  • Soft Cell - primary artist, producer [produced by]
  • Marc Almond - design [cover & inner bag], voice, written-by, arranged by
  • Harvey Goldberg - engineer [assistant], mixed by
  • Don Wershba - engineer [engineered by]
  • Dave Ball - instruments, written-by, arranged by
  • Ray Staff - lacquer cut by
  • Huw Feather - layout [& assistance]
  • Peter Ashworth - photography by [& assistance]
  • Mike Thorne - producer [produced by]
  • John Gatchell - trumpet

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