Simply Red release their first new studio album in eight years with BIG LOVE
out May 29 on East West Records. When the band announced a massive world tour
to celebrate their 30th anniversary last autumn, main man Mick Hucknall started
thinking about recording again.
Highlights include the celebratory first single ‘Shine On’ driven by their
trademark blue-eyed soul sound and ‘The Ghost Of Love’, a big soul song
punctuated by wah-wah guitar and the kind of bold orchestral strokes that once
powered Barry White and his Love Unlimited.
The break has done Mick Hucknall a power of good, newly refreshed he now has a
much clearer appreciation of Simply Red’s considerable legacy.
