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Simply Red - Big Love (2015)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 24 Oct 2022 23:28:26

Big Love is the eleventh studio album by British pop group Simply Red. The album was released on 29 May 2015 by East West Records. It is their first studio album since Stay (2007), and the first album to only feature original material since Life (1995). Big Love is also the first album to be released under a new recording contract with East West Records, a label Simply Red previously were signed to until April 2000. On 3 November 2014, Simply Red announced they would be reforming in Autumn 2015 for a 30th anniversary European tour, the "Big Love Tour 2015".

Lead singer Mick Hucknall said of the album: "Once I began wondering how Simply Red were going to sound, I started writing songs. With ‘Stay’ I was running away from Simply Red. But now I'm comfortable with the notion of us as a blue-eyed soul group. I had to stop myself fighting that idea. Our sound is original too. I honestly don't know of another band that has pulled so many musical strands together". Hucknall has said he wanted to make an album like Stars with a consistent theme: "And the theme here is life from a family viewpoint. It’s an album that deals with birth, love, death, and all the stuff in between".

Mick Hucknall and Simply Red are rightly inseparable in the minds of most listeners – he is the frontman and the star, the one constant in the band's history – but the singer's short-lived solo career of 2008-2012 proved there was a difference between Hucknall and the group. Big Love, the album the reunited Simply Red recorded to celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2015, isn't as in thrall to the past as the vocalist's two albums of covers, nor is it as comfortable with rock as 2007's Stay. It is, as the title suggests, a record that is romantic to its very core, an album whose bones are as exquisitely smooth as its surfaces (the loungey tongue-in-cheek saloon song "The Old Man and the Beer" is the exception that proves the rule). Even when the tempo picks up a notch on Big Love – and it doesn't happen all that often – the speedier songs come in the form of a slow-burning disco tune, an aesthetic that isn't all that far removed from Simply Red's enduring allegiance to the smoothest sounds of the '70s, specifically Philly soul. At times, the overall veneer is a shade too clean, suggesting nothing so much as cocktail hour at a classy conference, but the fact that Hucknall and Simply Red choose to celebrate the softer, soulful sounds of the '70s by doubling down on the smoothness does separate them from the legions of neo-soul divas in the new millennium. Let those singers scale operatic towers: this lot prefers to take it easy and is charming for it.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

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Track List:

01. Shine On [03:13]
02. Daydreaming [03:38]
03. Big Love [04:10]
04. The Ghost Of Love [03:16]
05. Dad [03:55]
06. Love Wonders [03:56]
07. Love Gave Me More [03:17]
08. Tight Tones [03:36]
09. Woru [04:13]
10. Coming Home [02:54]
11. The Old Man And The Beer [02:54]
12. Each Day [04:20]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 6 from 9. April 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 31. May 2015, 12:20

Simply Red / Big Love

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Defeat audio cache : Yes
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

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Test CRC C5F49AB3
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