40 years on, Richard Foster revisits Simple Minds' classic New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and finds an album full of dreamlike shifts in time, other worlds and disorientation
Sometimes our minds throw rope bridges between one art form and another. It can be difficult to fully comprehend why, but we persist with the feeling of connection, picking up clues over time. One imaginary connection that I can’t shake off is between Alain-Fournier’s magical novel from 1913, Le Grand Meaulnes and Simple Minds’ 1982 long player, New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84). Both book and record elucidate the intense longing for places, or states of mind where we feel inspired to think of the possibilities in our lives ahead. And with both, the flipside, the...
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