"New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) stands shining and singular in the Simple Minds canon. Its template was bludgeoned to within an inch of its life on the following year's Sparkle In The Rain, and it was never the same again. Everything that had been taken out had been put back in. Now it not only takes its place among the greatest future-pop albums of the 80s (Dare, The Lexicon Of Love), it sits comfortably among the greatest pop albums of all time".