Simple Minds
Cry

THE REVIEW

After the beautiful "Street Fighting Years," Simple Minds faced (perhaps rightly) negative opinions on all subsequent albums, probably losing a good part of their audience.

In 2002, the band, reduced to the core with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, had to seek revenge, knowing they couldn't afford any more mistakes.

This "Cry," recorded between Glasgow and Taormina, managed to give many fans a sigh of relief. Of course, we are not dealing with "New Gold Dream" or "Sparkle in the Rain," but there are many interesting elements indeed. The album opens with the fantastic "Cry," a track with a remarkable melody supported by electronic elements that don't detract. Throughout the first part of the album, you savor fragmented sounds, driving rhythms, melodic openings worthy of the name, and killer singles ("New Sunshine Morning"), with tributes to Italian music and tradition ("Face in the Sun"). "Disconnected" seems to transport you to another dimension, perhaps one of nonsense where everything is futile. You indeed feel "disconnected," carried away.
In short, the first half-hour flows away, leaving a sweet taste that fades shortly after: in fact, with forgettable tracks like "Sleeping Girl" and "Sugar" Cry becomes a regular album, a good album but not one of the best. Not to mention the terrible idea of including a hardcore dance track at the end of the album, certainly out of place in a record that is electronic, but not club house.

Worth noting is the good work by Planet Funk on "One Step Closer" and the excellent arrangements curated by Kerr himself, in my opinion, in great shape and with a timbre even more mature than before.