Empires and Dance

by Simple Minds

Empires and Dance cover art

Before their stadium-rock ascent, Simple Minds crafted a breathtakingly icy, Krautrock-inflected masterpiece of European post-punk. Heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and David Bowie's Berlin era, 'Empires and Dance' utilizes pulsating, mechanical basslines and incredibly atmospheric synthesizers to deliver a deeply anxious, incredibly dark, and rhythmic examination of geopolitical tension.

Genres

  • Post-Punk
  • New Wave

Tracklist

  1. I Travel
  2. Today I Died Again
  3. Celebrate
  4. This Fear Of Gods
  5. Capital City
  6. Constantinople Line
  7. Twist/Run/Repulsion
  8. Thirty Frames A Second
  9. Kant Kino
  10. Room