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Studio album by Simple Minds
Released 16 March 1998
Studio
Lochearn Studios, Scotland
Metropolis Studios, London, England
Studio Plus XXX, Paris, France
Home Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Capri Digital Studios, Capri, Italy
Genre Pop rock
Length 45:51
Label Chrysalis
Producer
Charlie BurchillPeter Walsh
Simple Minds chronology
The Promised
(1997) Néapolis
(1998) The Early Years 1977–1978
(1998)

Simple Minds studio albums chronology
Good News from the Next World
(1995) Néapolis
(1998) Our Secrets Are the Same
(2000/2004)

Néapolis is the eleventh studio album (of original material) by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in March 1998 by record label Chrysalis.

Background and content
After being released from their contract with Virgin Records, Simple Minds decided to musically reinvent themselves yet again. Having worked since 1991 as a duo with session musicians, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill reunited on a rehearsals-only basis with the band`s original rhythm section, Derek Forbes and Brian McGee (returning after eleven & fourteen year absences respectively). McGee was not involved in the project beyond the rehearsal stage, but Forbes formally rejoined Simple Minds as bass guitar player in July 1996. To record the album, Simple Minds also reunited with producer Peter Walsh, who`d been responsible for their acclaimed 1982 New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) album.

The resulting set of songs (written entirely by Kerr and Burchill) was a move away from the band`s more recent stadium rock and funk approaches and a return to their early-`80s electronic pop days (inspired by European experimental pop such as Kraftwerk and Hansa-period David Bowie) as well as incorporating contemporary dance music influences. While the reinstated Forbes played all of the bass tracks, drums were handled either by session players Michael Niggs and Jim McDermott or replaced by programmed loops provided by Hamilton Lee of Transglobal Underground. In early 1997, the band brought in their former drummer Mel Gaynor for a studio session, resulting in him playing the drums on one track `War Babies`. In a March 1998 interview with Q, Kerr would comment that Néapolis `wasn`t created as some kind of spiritual successor [to New Gold Dream], but I suppose that in getting back together with the people we work best with, some kind of thematic similarity was inevitable.`[5]

All tracks are written by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, except where noted

No. Title Length
1. `Song for the Tribes` 5:37
2. `Glitterball` 4:55
3. `War Babies` 5:03
4. `Tears of a Guy` 4:48
5. `Superman v Supersoul` 4:47
6. `Lightning` 5:35
7. `If I Had Wings` 4:43
8. `Killing Andy Warhol` 5:16
9. `Androgyny` 5:07
Total length: 45:51


Personnel
Adapted from the album`s liner notes.[8]

Simple Minds

Jim Kerr – vocals
Charlie Burchill – guitars, keyboards, programming
Derek Forbes – bass guitar
Mel Gaynor – drums on `War Babies`
Additional musicians

Jim McDermott – additional drums
Michael Niggs – additional drums
Hamilton Lee – additional programming
The Dukes – strings
Technical

Charlie Burchill – producer
Peter Walsh – producer, engineer, mixing
Simple Minds – mixing
Alessandro R.A. Benedetti – assistant engineer (Capri)
Marco Della Monica – assistant engineer (Capri)
Dougie Cowan – technical assistance
Sandra Dods – coordination
Toorkwaz – art direction, design
Andy Earl – photography