Sting Releases “57th and 9th”, Announces World Tour

Sting has returned with his first rock-oriented album in thirteen years. 57th and 9th came together in an impulsively over a few weeks earlier this year and ranges in topic from Syrian refugees (“Inshallah”) to climate change (“One Fine Day”) to the loss of musical heroes (“50,000”).

“There’s a child in all of us that looks at cultural icons and goes, ‘How could they die?’ Because we’ve invested this sort of godlike immortality to them,” he told USA Today. “‘50,000’ is from the point of view of someone who’s been there watching his friends die and facing his mortality. Mortality is something that once accepted, it’s not morbid. If anything, it makes your life richer — at least, that’s the philosophy I’m developing as I speak to you.”

The bass legend has also a boatload of tour dates in support of the album for 2017. The tour will kick off at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia before snaking across North America and jumping the Atlantic for a month in Europe.

57th and 9th is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).

57th and 9th Track List:

1. I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
2. 50,000
3. Down, Down, Down
4. One Fine Day
5. Pretty Young Soldier
6. Petrol Head
7. Heading South On The Great North Road
8. If You Can’t Love Me
9. Inshallah
10. The Empty Chair

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