Sting Confirms November Release For New Album 'The Bridge', Shares First Single If It's Love
Wednesday, 01 September 2021
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Tomoko Itoki
Sting has announced a new album.
'The Bridge' will arrive on November 19 through UMC/Polydor and include the newly unveiled If It's Love, an airy, spirited indie-pop track.
"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," Sting said in a statement. "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."
Penned by the 69-year-old during the COVID-19 pandemic, and recorded remotely in lockdown, the LP finds the former Police star ruminating over "personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown, and extraordinary social and political turmoil."
He added: "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."
Produced almost entirely by Sting and Martin Kierszenbaum, except Loving You, which sees Sting, Kierszenbaum, and Maya Jane Coles behind the control desk, the follow-up to 2019's 'My Songs' was mixed by Robert Orton, engineered by Donal Hodgson and Tony Lake, and mastered by Gene Grimaldi at Oasis Mastering.
Sting is due to return to the stage with a show in Sicily on September 27, followed by two dates in Athens on September 30 and October 1. He'll launch his My Songs: The Las Vegas Residency beginning on October 29 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Head here for details.
'The Bridge' tracklist:
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)
14. I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City (Japanese exclusive bonus track)
Sting Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri October 29 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat October 30 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Wed November 03 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Fri November 05 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat November 06 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Wed November 10 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Fri November 12 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat November 13 2021 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat November 20 2021 - GREENSBORO North Carolina - Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (USA)
Sun November 21 2021 - GREENSBORO North Carolina - Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (USA)
Fri April 15 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Sat April 16 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Sun April 17 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Tue April 19 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Wed April 20 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Thu April 21 2022 - LONDON London Palladium
Fri June 03 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat June 04 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Wed June 08 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Fri June 10 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat June 11 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Wed June 15 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Fri June 17 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
Sat June 18 2022 - LAS VEGAS Nevada - Colosseum At Caesars Palace (USA)
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