Simple Minds - New Gold Dream CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

From their late-Seventies origins as ambitious, artsy punks, Simple Minds have evolved into stylish conjurers of a new synthesized romanticism. While they still rely heavily on such recent electropop clichés as ticktock rhythms and superflanged bass, the Scottish group's sound is seductive in its liquid keyboard grace and rich, pillowy production grandeur. In fact, the only problem with New Gold Dream, Simple Minds' second U.S. release, is that it's often too seductive, with the band writing atmospheres for dreaming instead of real songs. In "Big Sleep," for example, Charles Burchill's distant siren-like guitar and the gently tumbling rhythm fail to compensate for the lack
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