Atmospheric, moody and uplifting. Skying spins you around, flips you over and then kicks you to the ground.
This latest offering from the best band to ever leave Southend is brilliance from the start. Five plays in the last two days says it all.
The band are supporting Florence and the Machine at Alexandra Palace this weekend, its all sold out but we’ll bring you a review next week.


Right up there with the best albums of last year. A “friend” likened Still Life to something Simple Minds would have come up with. I’m pretty sure that’s not a good thing. We haven’t spoken since.
At the risk of you never talking to me again I playlisted Simple Minds compilation of the first 5 albums – X5 and it’s pretty good really. A lot of influential stuff when you listen to it now. Admittedly the later stuff became a bit pretentious