Sons and Fascination is the fourth album by Scottish post-punk band Simple Minds. It was released in September 1981 and was their first to reach a wide international audience.
The sessions continued the group's impressive run of high-quality output, but there are instances where ambition gets the best of them.
Though their work with Hillage hardly spawned anything on a plane with the two albums that preceded it and the one that followed it, it's still a substantial piece of the Simple Minds puzzle. Bridging the art disco of Empires and Dance with the pop masterpiece New Gold Dream, the album falters when the band seems to be reaching a bit too far for their own good.
The other stumbling block is Hillage's production: Where the basslines of Empires and Dance snapped and tugged and where the drums hit with brisk smacks and thick thumps, the echo-gauze of the production work diminishes the impact of the band's greatest asset and makes everything sound bigger and busier than necessary.
(The massive qualities of New Gold Dream sound much more natural and less forced in comparison.) The record isn't without moments of brilliance, like the exquisitely detailed "70 Cities As Love Brings the Fall" (a great balance between grand melodies and bizarre noise), the insistently snaking "In Trance As Mission," and "Sweat in Bullet," which has sparkling keyboard parts and crafty guitar interplay.
Aside from these moments, the mind tends to wander and wonder if the band was trying to do too much.
Side one
1. In Trance As Mission - 6:50
2. Sweat In Bullet - 4:29
3. 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall - 4:48
4. Boys From Brazil - 5:29
Side two
1. Love Song - 5:03
2. This Earth That You Walk Upon - 5:26
3. Sons And Fascination - 5:23
4. Seeing Out The Angel - 6:10
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Ariola Eurodisc GmbH
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd.
- Copyright © – Virgin Records Ltd.
Credits
- Backing Vocals – Jacqui, Ken Lockie
- Bass – Derek Forbes
- Design, Art Direction [Direction] – Assorted Images, M. Garrat
- Drums – Brian McGee
- Engineer [Farmyard Studios] – Hugh Jones
- Engineer [Regents Park Studios] – Alan Jakoby
- Guitar – Charles Burchill
- Keyboards – Michael MacNeil
- Photography By [Polaroid] – Sheila Rock
- Producer – Steve Hillage
- Technician [Live Sound] – Billy Worton, Douglas Cowan
- Voice – Jim Kerr
- Written-By – Simple Minds
Notes
Release: 1981
Format: LP
Genre: New Wave, Synth-pop
Label: Virgin Records
Catalog# 203 959-320
Vinyl: Gebruikerssporen
Hoes: Zijkant Beschadigd
Prijs: €2,00
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