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Nov 11, 2016It proves that years of passion projects haven’t dulled his songwriting instincts.
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Nov 10, 2016Sting sifts through familiar territory with songs of protest sitting alongside songs of yearning and love and it all adds up to record that's simultaneously unassuming and revealing: through its modest nature, 57th & 9th stands as testaments to Sting's inherent gifts as a songwriter and recordmaker.
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Nov 11, 2016Even if the album gets more ponderous as his concerns deepen, it's nice to see the king of pain flex a little.
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Nov 18, 2016The resulting material is imbued with an energy and urgency severely lacking in much of the music that he has produced across the last decade and then some.
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Nov 9, 2016“Heading South On The Great North Road”, sounds like an outtake from Sting’s musical The Last Ship. But otherwise it’s fairly standard AOR fare, only baring its teeth on the snarling “Petrol Head”
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MojoNov 4, 2016Heading South On The Great North Road drags, and Pretty Young Soldier, a tale of gender confusion in the military, is slightly laboured. However, most of 57th and 9th has a youthful energy suggesting that Sting hasn't faded yet. [Dec 2016, p.90]
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UncutNov 4, 2016[A] largely tentative set. [Dec 2016, p.38]
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Nov 10, 2016The start of Sting’s career is the subject of Heading South on the Great North Road, on which he is accompanied by a single acoustic guitar, a moment of respite from the album’s bluster. More cumbersome is Pretty Young Soldier, a tale of a military romance.
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Mar 18, 2017This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.