Graffiti Soul is the fifteenth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 25 May 2009.
An e-mail announcement by Simple Minds stated that Graffiti Soul was initially written on location in Rome, Sicily, Antwerp and Glasgow. The band then returned for the first time in almost three decades to Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth in Wales, where the group originally recorded their earlier albums Real to Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance and New Gold Dream. The album was mixed in Los Angeles by Bob Clearmountain.
On 31 May 2009, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at #10, becoming Simple Minds' first UK top ten album in 14 years, since the release of their 1995 album Good News from the Next World.
Graffiti Soul is also available as a Vinyl LP and a 2-CD Deluxe edition, both including a second album called Searching For The Lost Boys with cover songs of Neil Young, Massive Attack, Magazine, The Stranglers, Thin Lizzy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Call and The Beach Boys.
The video for the single 'Rockets', was made available via the bands' Official Website in early April 2009.
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