Simple Minds – Sacrosanct (CD)
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Simple Minds built their reputation in the early 1980s as one of the most ambitious bands to emerge from post-punk Scotland, channeling cinematic scale and genuine emotional urgency into records like *New Gold Dream* and *Sparkle in the Rain*. Kerr and Burchill have been writing together since their Glasgow schooldays, and that deep creative shorthand is something no lineup change or commercial detour has ever fully obscured. Sacrosanct arrives with that original restless spirit very much intact.
Following on from 2025’s third installment in Simple Minds’ live album series, and the joint memoir celebrating the lifelong friendship between the band’s singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, Our Secrets Are The Same, which was featured in both Uncut magazine and Rough Trade’s ‘Books of The Year,’ Simple Minds return with their 19th studio album, Sacrosanct. Their first album of new material since 2022’s Direction Of The Heart, its eight outstanding songs, finds lifelong collaborators Kerr and Burchill in supremely confident form, on one of their most vital albums in decades, one which recaptures the magic and majesty of the band’s early years.
UPC: 4099964251135
Label: BMG Rights Managemen
Release Date: 1.29.27
Format: CD