Sons and Fascination
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| Studio album by Simple Minds | |||||
| Released | September 1981 | ||||
| Recorded | 1981 | ||||
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| Length | 78:59 (originally 43:50 + 35:09) | ||||
| Label | Virgin | ||||
| Producer | Steve Hillage | ||||
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Original Sons and Fascination cover
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Original Sister Feelings Call cover
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Rock 82 | favourable |
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| Sister Feelings Call | |
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| AllMusic |  |
| The Face | favourable |
| Martin C. Strong | 8/10 |
| NME | unfavourable |
| Sounds | favourable |
| Virgin Encyclopedia | |
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call 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. It includes the singles "The American", "Love Song" and "Sweat in Bullet".
Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call were two separate albums. They were assembled from the same sessions and released at the same time and, in some instances, sold as a double-LP set. The two releases are variously categorised as a double album, two single albums or a single album and an extended play. The current CD remaster contains all the tracks once split onto two LPs, with their respective track running orders preserved. The original 1986 CD reissue deleted two songs from Sister Feelings Call, as the maximum running time of redbook CD releases at the time would not accommodate the entire set, and Virgin were unwilling to issue the material as a two-CD set.
The sessions are the last to have the same line-up as all its predecessors. Drummer Brian McGee left just after recording the set, and was replaced by Kenny Hyslop as part-time member for the upcoming tour. Hyslop also appeared in the "Sweat in Bullet" and "Love Song" videos.
Having ended their contract with Arista the sessions were the first recordings the band made for Virgin Records. They worked with producer Steve Hillage, who was a guitarist in the progressive rock band Gong. One thing Hillage and Simple Minds had in common was a love of krautrock music. The band's previous three albums were produced by John Leckie.
The rhythm section was made more prominent than on any earlier album of the band, loud, heavy and sometimes anchoring a track to one or two driving rhythm patterns, but also often put at moving angles with some of the other instruments or with Kerr's vocals (as in "The American" or "Sweat in Bullet"); this gave the songs a spatial, multi-planed and atmospheric sound, whilst keeping up propulsion.
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