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Sting at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting Releases New Details For ‘The Bridge’

by Music-News.com on September 2, 2021

in News

Sting has announced his 15th studio album, ‘The Bridge’, and released the lead single, ‘If It’s Love’.

Sting’s upcoming LP was recorded remotely in lockdown and sees the former Police legend ruminate over “personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown, and extraordinary social and political turmoil.”

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Sting sadly lost his dear friend and touring manager, Billy Francis, of the past four decades, who he said he owed for the group’s success.

And for the upcoming collection, Sting went down memory lane, remembering the music and places that have shaped him.

He said: “These songs are between one place and another, between one state of mind and another, between life and death, between relationships. Between pandemics, and between eras – politically, socially and psychologically, all of us are stuck in the middle of something. We need a bridge.”

Speaking of the first track, ‘If It’s Love’, Sting says of the upbeat number: “I’m certainly not the first songwriter to equate falling in or out of love with an incurable sickness, nor will I be the last.

“‘If It’s Love’ is my addition to that canon where the tropes of metaphorical symptoms, diagnosis, and downright incapacity are all familiar enough to make each of us smile ruefully.”

Fans can expect a cocktail of rock n’ roll, jazz, classical music and folk informed by the ballads in Cecil Sharp’s ‘Collection of English Folk Songs’, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the Roman history of Northumbria to Saint Thomas.

‘The Bridge’ is released on November 19, ‘If It’s Love’ is out now on all streaming platforms.

‘The Bridge’ track-listing:

1. ‘Rushing Water’
2. ‘If It’s Love’
3. ‘The Book of Numbers’
4. ‘Loving You’
5. ‘Harmony Road’
6. ‘For Her Love’
7. ‘The Hills on the Border’
8. ‘Captain Bateman’
9. ‘The Bells of St. Thomas’
10. ‘The Bridge’
11. ‘Waters of Tyne’ (Deluxe bonus track)
12. ‘Captain Bateman’s Basement’ (Deluxe bonus track)
13. ‘(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay’ (Deluxe bonus track)

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