The press speaks of Simple Minded in more than glowing terms...

Simple Minded, in Fred Rapilly's 2024 top 10 at Magic!

Review at Sun Burns Out.

[...] It's a feeling that invades us all a little, at one time or another. This "guilty pleasure" that makes us love a group considered a little shameful if we refer to the drastic criteria of the good taste police. We must then enjoy it rather solitarily, cultivating this assumed discretion in a pretty secret garden that only rare confidants visit until the day of coming out. [...]

It was the book Themes for Great Cities by Graeme Thomson that inspired Orwell's frontman Jérôme Didelot to rearrange Simple Minds songs. This biography, which pays tribute to the inventiveness of the early years of Simple Minds, was a revelation to the musician from Nancy: 'The idea was not to reinterpret songs that everyone had already hummed, but to go and find lesser-known themes in the Scottish band's discography, sometimes drowned out by the radical sound of these early albums, and to offer them in personal, almost solemn versions."