Walk Between Worlds (album)

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Walk Between Worlds
Walk Between Worlds - Simple Minds cover.jpg
Studio album by
Simple Minds
Released2 February 2018
StudioSphere Recording, Battersea, central London
Length41:25
Label BMG
Producer
Simple Minds chronology
Acoustic in Concert
(2017)		Walk Between Worlds
(2018)		 Live in the City of Angels
(2019)
Singles from Walk Between Worlds
  1. "Magic"
    Released: 4 January 2018 [1] (physically: 2 February 2018 [nb 1] [2] )
  2. "The Signal and The Noise"
    Released: 11 January 2018 [3]
  3. "Sense of Discovery"
    Released: 25 January 2018 [4]
  4. "Summer"
    Released: 3 May 2018 [5]

Walk Between Worlds is the eighteenth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in February 2018 by BMG. [6] [7] [8]

Contents

Background

Walk Between Worlds heralded major lineup changes for Simple Minds. After a period of relative stability since the early 2000s, only vocalist Jim Kerr, guitarist Charlie Burchill and bassist Ged Grimes remained from the previous studio album, Big Music.

It was the first album since 2002's Cry without keyboardist Andy Gillespie, who left the band in early 2017. Longtime drummer Mel Gaynor performed on nine of the album's tracks, but left prior to the band's 2018 tour.

Longtime associate Gordon Goudie played acoustic guitar on four songs. Goudie also appeared on the following Simple Minds albums: 2001's Neon Lights , 2002's Cry, 2005's Black & White 050505 , 2009's Graffiti Soul , 2016's Acoustic and 2017's Acoustic in Concert . Sarah Brown remains the primary backing vocalist of the band.

Percussionist Cherisse Osei played on three songs and is the official drummer for the 2018 tour. Catherine AD aka The Anchoress provided backing vocals on two songs and was playing keyboards on tour but abruptly left the band during the 2018 tour.

Also returning on the album was Peter-John Vettese, who played piano on two tracks and arranged string orchestra on one song. (Vettese also appeared on the album Real Life in 1991).

Walk Between Worlds was performed in its entirety in February 2018 during seven concerts throughout Europe.

Artwork

The album artwork is by Brazilian visual artist Heitor Magno. [9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [10]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Walk Between Worlds received generally positive reviews from music critics. On the review aggregator website Metacritic, which assigns a "Metascore" based on the ratings and reviews of selected mainstream independent publications, the album has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [6] [10] Writing in Uncut , Graeme Thompson described it as, "an expansive, atmospheric reboot of the muscular melancholy of 1985's Once Upon a Time , and "as strangely compelling as anything they've done over the past 35 years." [13]

On 28 January 2018, a few days before its release, Walk Between Worlds was awarded "Album of the Week" by The Times . [14]

Track listing

All tracks written by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill except where noted.

Standard edition

  1. "Magic" – 4:35
  2. "Summer" – 4:57 (Kerr, Burchill, Owen Parker)
  3. "Utopia" – 4:15
  4. "The Signal and the Noise" – 5:18
  5. "In Dreams" – 4:16
  6. "Barrowland Star" – 6:23
  7. "Walk Between Worlds" – 5:13
  8. "Sense of Discovery" – 6:27 (Kerr, Burchill, Parker)

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

  2. "Silent Kiss" – 4:57
  3. "Angel Underneath My Skin" – 3:43 (Mark Kerr / Erikah Karst)
  4. "Dirty Old Town" (live) – 4:53 (Ewan McColl)

B-sides

  1. "Direction of the Heart" – 4:23 (B-side of the Magic 7" vinyl single) [15] [nb 2]

Durations:

Personnel

Simple Minds

with:

Charts

Notes

  1. ↑ b/w "Direction Of The Heart" (non-album track).
  2. ↑ The "Taormina 2022" version of "Direction Of The Heart" is due to be released on 21 October 2022 as one of two bonus tracks of the forthcoming new studio album Direction of the Heart . [16]

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