Simple Minds

Elysium

Simple Minds open Sacrosanct, their twentieth studio album, with “Elysium,” named for the paradise of Greek myth. Charlie Burchill built the music on his own before Jim Kerr wrote words to match its atmosphere, and the band name Magazine’s 1978 “The Light Pours Out of Me” as a touchstone. It is the second single after “Beginner Boys”; the album, their first since Direction of the Heart (2022), is out on BMG on January 29, 2027.

Simple Minds. Second single from Sacrosanct, BMG, January 29, 2027; video directed by Laurie TB. Sources: XS Noize, That Eric Alper, Simple Minds on YouTube. Painting: Die Gefilde der Seligen (Fields of the Blessed), 1877, by Arnold Böcklin. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.