Graffiti Soul is the fifteenth studio album (of original material) by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in May 2009.
That's the way we worked upon Graffiti Soul's tracks; we worked upon ideas and just let them evolve over long periods of time.»[14] An e-mail announcement by Simple Minds stated that Graffiti Soul was initially written on location in Rome (Italy), Sicily, Antwerp (Belgium) and Glasgow (Scotland).
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, actually a covers studio album made up of songs by Neil Young, Massive Attack, Magazine, The Stranglers, Thin Lizzy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Call and The Beach Boys.
"[17] At least, four other tracks, "Six Degrees of Separation", "Lotus Effect", "Shaman"[15] and "Angel Under My Skin" were demoed for Graffiti Soul.
Originally written by Mark Kerr and Erikah Karst during the Cry period (2002), "Angel Under My Skin" was previously worked on for Black & White 050505 (2005) before the song was finally recorded and released as a Deluxe edition bonus track on Walk Between Worlds (2018).