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Simple Minds Big Music (CD) Album
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- Condition
- Title
- Big Music
- EAN
- 5060414960005
- Edition
- Album
- Style
- Rock
- Release Date
- 03/11/2014
- No Of Discs
- 1
- MPN
- SMBM3
- UPC
- 5060414960005
- Artist
- Simple Minds
- Format
- CD
- Release Year
- 2014
- Record Label
- Caroline
- Release Title
- Big Music
- Genre
- Rock
- Run Time
- 51 Mins 42 Seconds
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Record Label
Caroline
UPC
5060414960005
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050165658
Product Key Features
Release Year
2014
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Run Time
51 Mins 42 Seconds
Artist
Simple Minds
Release Title
Big Music
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Distribution
Universal Distribution
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Number of Discs
1
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Personnel: Jim Kerr (vocals); Charlie Burchill (guitar, keyboards, programming); Gavin Goldberg, Andy Wright (keyboards, programming); Andy Gillespie (keyboards); Ged Grimes (bass guitar); Mel Gaynor (drums). Illustrator: Daniel Reed . Photographers: Paul Cox ; Martin Smith . When Simple Minds released Black and White in 2005, it was obvious they'd been doing some creative soul searching in light of the success of bands clearly influenced by them, namely, the Killers and Manic Street Preachers. 2009's Graffiti Soul saw the return of drummer Mel Gaynor to the fold. He brought a familiar, tight, propulsive foundation to Charlie Burchill's guitar playing and Andy Gillespie's imaginative synths. Jim Kerr's alternately whispering and soaring vocals were still at the fore, but were showcased inside more economical songwriting, and Jez Coad's production celebrated the band's pop identity. Big Music finds Simple Minds coming full circle -- going all the way back to 1979 for inspiration. They've rediscovered the urgent, keyboard-driven post-punk futurism of recordings such as Empires and Dance and Sons and Fascination. Rather than try to merely re-create them, they've integrated them with the more guitar-centric classicism of New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain, and Once Upon a Time. Three tracks here -- "Blindfolded," "Midnight Walking," and " Imagination" -- draw directly from Simple Minds circa 1982-1985. Big beats and drum programs, careening synth pop, and Burchill's fat, edgy guitar frame Kerr's trademark clipped phrasing, which emotes even when he's whispering. "Honest Town," one of two tunes written with the Chvrches' Iain Cook, is a gem. It's as stirring as "Someone Somewhere in Summertime," but with its house intro and trancey pulse fueling the moving narrative (Kerr taking his dying mother for a last drive around their town), it dives headlong into dance music. This isn't an isolated incident. The other Cook collab, "Blood Diamonds," uses SM's textured, synth-driven romanticism to blur vintage and modern dance pop. The quirky, fat kick drums and loops in the intro, and the choruses of "Kill or Cure" evoke glitch with four-on-the-floor basslines and synth pulses adorned with shimmering guitars in the verses. Despite the Cult-esque guitar riff in the intro, "Imagination" is a largely electro-driven rocker; it suggests Sons and Fascination more than it does anything else -- Gillespie's multivalent keyboards are in accelerated swerve. "Concrete and Cherry Blossom" and "Broken Glass Park" are anthems laden with irresistible hooks and warm atmospherics. They revel in the cinematic drama of Kerr's voice. (The former contains the repetitive line "I'm on the rooftop" which unmistakably and unabashedly echoes "I'm on the catwalk....") The cover of the Call's "Let the Day Begin" substitutes enormous, zig -zagging synth vamps in place of the original's roaring guitars (though Burchill stings in the break alongside a bagpipe sample). This revisioning displa
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