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Title: Early Brilliance From Simple Minds
Review: Astonishing third album by Simple Minds achieves greatness for the first time. A tightly integrated eurotrance song cycle, this album sometimes seems like a single track. Their Krautrock influence really came to the fore after they finally began touring on The Continent. "I Travel" is their most exciting track ever! Possibly the most exciting track I've ever heard! The churning rhythm sequencers are acid house a decade early. Elsewhere the pace is deliberate and unrelenting, albeit slower. "Thirty Frames A Second" is the great third single that never was. Charlie Burchill's guitar studiously avoids cliche and what more can I say about Derek Forbes' bass? He is the powerful heart of everything Simple Minds did until his ouster.
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