release date: Apr. 1, 1979
format: cd (1993 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,78]
producer: John Leckie
label: Disky - nationality: Scotland, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Someone" - 3. "Sad Affair" - 4. "All for You"
Studio album debut by Scottish quintet Simple Minds originally released on Zoom Records. The band consists of lead vocalist Jim Kerr, guitarist & violinist Charles Burchill, bassist Derek Forbes, keyboardist Michael MacNeil and drummer and percussionist Brian McGee. All tracks are credited Kerr and Burchill and the initial musical style is quite different from the style that later came to be associated with this band. Here at their earliest stage they play a simple power pop new wave style with focus on guitar. Some of the tracks makes me think of XTC and especially Magazine both in melody and the singing style of Jim Kerr, which bears much of the characteristics of Howard Devoto.
