Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
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Artist: Simple MindsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Published: 2003-10-21
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Someone Somewhere In Summertime
- Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel
- Promised You A Miracle
- Big Sleep
- Somebody Up There Likes You
- New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
- Glittering Prize
- Hunter And The Hunted
- King Is White And In The Crowd
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Free Music Review: Kerr in the Community
Hit: 5 Stars
Dazzled by the iridescence of 'Glittering Prize', this startled reviewer could easily be duped into thinking that the rest of 'New Gold Dream' would come hurtling apologetically in on its shirt-tails.
It is SUCH a good song, all glammed up and sinewy, with a killer ethereal chorus, Jim Kerr's deep echoey vocal sending a chill down even the most resistant spine.
But one swallow doesn't make a summer, and it's a big ask of anyone to come up with a whole album which can stand eye-to-eye with its wistful, beautiful offspring.
Fortunately, 'NGD' does.
It's superb.
Nine exceptional songs, cosseted in a thick, viscous, production that allows them complete freedom to move into your consciousness and lurk there, long after you've finished listening.
On the first few hearings it sounds like our sad ole friend 'Stad-Rock' is rearing it's artless and pointless head again, but patience is giver of lasting reward; perseverance reveals all kinds of depth and nuance in the music, certainly above and beyond the highly polished veneer.
'Prize' itself is tucked away in a corner, but this of course only goes to heighten it's glory. The non-trumpeting of this neo-classic, in a way, sums up the recklessly brilliant core of 'NGD'
It sounds so effortless, you get the feeling they just knocked it together in a few hours - that the ideas came thick and fast one rainy Scottish afternoon (there is no other kind). The deep, fluid melodies broke through, bathed in some kind of artistic Borealis half-light, as the Simples lounged around a trendy café, smoking ciggies and quaffing expensive lager.
It even has, right at it's heart (shock! horror!), that contradiction in terms, that elusive rock leper - the (gasp!) interesting instrumental! Honest! Right in the middle!
As if the shock of that wasn't enough, the following title track cranks the excellence quota up to another level again. It's one of a series of songs here, blessed with some kind of innate grace, a tight, whirling elan. They expand, draw you in rather than drag you.
The more you listen to 'NGD`, the more you realise the little grain of good taste you thought it was, has become a mountain of good sense, and you'll know in your heart of hearts, it's what you (we!?) NEED.
Good songs, intelligently presented, is always a winning proposition, and coming after TWO previous storming albums, 'Reel to Real Cacophany' and 'Sons and Fascination' this is a peak of peaks in SM's ascendancy. Unfortunately the next album 'Sparkle in the Rain' was the beginning of the sad (but utterly unavoidable) decline.
Enjoy this one, a stunning album by a group at the absolute apex of its powers. Jammed with confidence and verve, delivering top notch soulful, atmospheric, sensuous anthems, almost nonchalantly.
Literally, a glittering prize.
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