Sting drops lead single for up

Image: Via Twitter @OfficialSting

Sting drops lead single for upcoming ‘The Bridge’ album [listen]

Music legend Sting will release his new album, ‘The Bridge’, on November 19.

Sting drops lead single for up

Image: Via Twitter @OfficialSting

Sting has announced his 15th studio album, The Bridge and released the lead single, If It’s Love. The 69-year-old musician’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 GOES DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH ‘THE BRIDGE’

The Every Breath You Take hitmaker sadly lost his dear friend and touring manager of the past four decades, Billy Francis, who he said he owed for the group’s success.

Sting goes down memory lane with ‘The Bridge’

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

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, he said.

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’ TRACKLIST

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

  • 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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