This Last Night in Sodom

This Last Night in Sodom is the third full-length album by Soft Cell. It was released in March 1984, about a month after the duo publicly announced they were dissolving the partnership. Singer Marc Almond and keyboardist Dave Ball don't attempt to recapture the Top 40 magic of that hit here. Instead, Almond completes his transformation into an electro-pop Scott Walker, operatically singing self-conscious and jaded songs like Mr. Self-Destruct, Little Rough Rhinestone, and Meet Murder My Angel, while Ball's keyboards explore an icy, nearly Germanic abstraction (in the Kraftwerk / Neu! sense).