SIMPlE MINDS
Walk Between Worlds 7/10
Enjoying something of a late career renaissance, simple Minds’ first album of new material since 2014’s Big Music is an expansive, atmospheric reboot of the muscular melancholy of 1985’s Once Upon A Time (“sense Of Discovery”, a lovely fin de siècle electro-ballad, even reprises the vocal refrain from “Alive And Kicking”). “the signal And the Noise” and “In Dreams” possess a familiar restless propulsion, while the epic stir of “Barrowland star”, bolstered by a fine arabesque string arrangement and a searing guitar solo, is as strangely compelling as anything they’ve done over the past 35 years.