Black and White 050505

Black and White 050505 Artist: Simple Minds
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 060768476929
EAN: 0060768476929
ASIN: B000ANVPGU


Release Date: 2006-02-28

Black and White 050505


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Tracks:

  1. Stay Visible
  2. Home
  3. Stranger
  4. Different World
  5. Underneath The Ice
  6. The Jeweller (Part 2)
  7. Black And White
  8. Kiss The Ground
  9. Dolphins

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Ageing like a fine red..........2005-09-13

There are moments on this album that are as good as anything the Minds have put together over the last few years and a couple of tracks that are at least deserving of a place beside the best of their music from the 80s. `Stay Visible' would have to be their best track in a long time, rhythmic and pulsating, dark and enlightening with roots back to the early 80s where it was first sketched out. The second track, `Home', is impressively moody and driven and, to use a phrase I deplore, infectiously scored. With their dark energy neither track would necessarily be out of place in the classic `Sparkle in the Rain' album of 1983.

'Jeweller' works, I guess, as does `Different world'. They don't quite smack you in the face but seem rather to work on you while you're not watching. The latter is perhaps the more moodily hypnotic and the vocals are ultimately more rewarding. From there album plunges into a pool of mediocrity that seems inevitable in the days of modern music. `Underneath the ice' and `Kiss the ground' are as pointless as any of their weaker moments. Both songs suffer from a witless repetition of a fairly uninspired chorus line and lack the opening tracks' driving vigour. `Stranger' is much the same- not as bad perhaps, but not a great deal better.

The title track, `Black and White' and the closing `Dolphin', however, bring no small amount of redemption. The title song is a cracking track; quieter but more personal. What it lacks in pulsating rhythm and driving energy it more than makes up for in expression. Jimmy is in a raw mood here. The soaring vocals of his more successful anthems blend with an impressive intimacy that is close to making this the albums best track. `Dolphins' brings the album to a grand close; reflective and atmospheric, with a wonderfully haunting guitar refrain.

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