Sister Feelings Call by Simple Minds

Sister Feelings Call is one half of Simple Minds' fourth album, the September 1981 double set Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, and the Glasgow band's first for Virgin. Steve Hillage produced, and he lets the group stretch out into glinting, hypnotic grooves that sound like Europe glimpsed from a night train window.

Jim Kerr croons and intones rather than shouts, Charlie Burchill's guitar chimes and shivers, Mick MacNeil's keyboards pile up in cool, glassy layers, and Derek Forbes's bass pulses underneath like a heartbeat on the dancefloor. "The American" is the one that grabs you, a jittery, strutting new wave dance track with a sardonic edge, and with "Love Song" and "Sweat in Bullet" it made up the singles run. The double album became their first UK top twenty record and the first to win them a real following abroad, setting the stage for New Gold Dream a year later.

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