Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Sting's catalog across 14 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 7.4/10. The top-rated Sting album is ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987) with a 8.6/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by The Dream of the Blue Turtles and Ten Summoner's Tales. The discography on Wavelength spans 1985 to 2016.
...Nothing Like The Sun (Expanded Edition)
“… Nothing Like The Sun — a powerful, often hypnotic album that blends jazz and rock styles into a thoughtful suite of twelve songs about love, politics and the meaning of the individual life — avoids the self-conscious stiffness that marred Sting’s first solo LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. Whereas that album often […]”
57th & 9th
“Our take on singer-songwriter's 12th solo album”
Symphonicities (Bonus Track Version)
“Who would have guessed that Sting’s most exciting album in years would be a set of orchestral remakes? Symphonicities rocks hard from the outset, with a wallop of cellos and violins replacing the staccato guitars of the early Police song "Next to You." The most inspired moments are the whimsical ones: the harp-and-flute intro to […]”
Sacred Love
“Sting has been so famous for so long and done so much — the Police, the rain forest, the tantric sex (or was it?), the luxury-car commercial — he has become easy to undervalue as purely a musician. The radiant Sacred Love is a vivid and frequently gorgeous reminder that Gordon Sumner is first and […]”
All This Time - EP
“Sting was in Tuscany when he gave this concert in a courtyard there, beginning at nine in the evening, Italian time, September 11th. The show was scheduled as a two-hour Webcast; however, Sting chose to transmit only one song — his hymnlike classic "Fragile" — after he and his multinational crew learned of the events […]”
Songs from the Labyrinth
“Here, Sting and Lutenist Edin Karamazov construct "a soundtrack in words and music" to the life of John Dowland (1563-1626), the Catholic English composer and musician who was jilted by his own queen as he became a star in European courts. Sting conceives Dowland as a Renaissance Nick Drake, a tortured dude who transcends personal […]”
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