365 – New Music Daily

Sting’s 1990 solo project Ten Summoners Tales is much different from all of the Police albums that have been featured on this blog (which is, by the way, all the police albums sans compilations). The bigger songs on this are either melancholic or really out of the box sort of rocky songs – they are very hard to describe due to their unique sounds.

Seven Days has these sort of plucking piano keys to go along with spacious guitar strums, building to a gorgeous chorus with all the elements working together – unfortunately it is to Sting talking about each day of the week, which isn’t too bad, it just is what it is, if you know what I mean, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down, if you catch my drift, if that makes sense.

Fields of Gold is another spacious build with (potentially?) bagpipes floating through the track, with beautiful synth chords around the track. Worth looking up the lyrics to this one to see what a nice love song it is, noting this because I thought he was saying through the field of Bali… not quite. This album also features one of the craziest jump scares for 21st century music fans, as (the fantastic!) Shape of My Heart is pretty much 1:1 Lucid Dreams by Juice WRLD. Good to know that Juice WRLD is not only a Sting fan, but a fan of Sting’s solo work.

All in all, while I prefer the Police, this is a really unique output from Sting. It is certainly nowhere close to the peaks of the Police, but does showcase his composition ability as well as his originality as an artist.

Favorite songs: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, Fields of Gold, Heavy Cloud No Rain, Seven Days, Saint Augustine in Hell, It’s Probably Me, Shape of My Heart, Something The Boy Said, Epilogue (Nothing ‘Bout Me)