With live music off the table for nearly two years, the period of early quarantine amidst pandemic became a creative time for Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, who set to work on the group’s 19th studio ...

"I know it's fancy dress, I've come as the test card."" With the possible exception of Talking Heads, I can’t think of another band who had such an exceptional run of early albums as Simple Minds.

Whether their breakthrough into the mainstream was a miracle or not depends on how the band is seen. The album preceding New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) was actually issued as two separate records: Sons ...