![]() ![]() ![]() The Beatles, rock’n’roll, American country, Johnny Cash – forget all that. “That European tour was a big thing,” says John Leckie, the producer of Empires and Dance. Europe made a deeper and more sustained impression. Seventy-two hours in New York had felt like a fever dream, vivid but barely real. Unwavering, uncompromising, steely, committed, it is powered by a fearsome cohesion of intent not a single crack breaches a shared sense of purpose.įor their previous album, 1979’s exquisite and bewildering Real to Real Cacophony, Simple Minds played outside the UK for the first time. It strips a continent down to bare lightbulbs and hard wiring, the pomp and pretence of classical culture raised up only to be kicked in. Sustaining an overpowering and unrelenting mood, music, voice and words perfectly in lockstep, Empires and Dance is a Mitteleuropean psychodrama. Go into your brain and see what’s there.” It’s a nuclear reactor of musical orchestration from five working-class Glasgow boys – it’s fucking brilliant.” He says Empires and Dance taught him that “you don’t have to be like a bad actor, asking: ‘What is my motivation?’ You can just let the music come through you … It taught me to look a bit farther beyond and not to be worried of pretension, either. ![]() “It was almost like learning a new language. “Empires and Dance was massive for me,” says the Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield. ![]()
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