★★★★★
Much like his fellow collegue, musician Peter Gabriel, British singer and songwriter Sting has spent the past decade, since his last album with original material Sacred Love (A&M;, 2003) in endless touring, reissues, cover albums and recording past material with a philharmonic orchestra. Far from being inactive or lazy, during that time he also reunited his band Police twice?once for the induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and for a lucrative world tour in 2007/08...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-10-20
★★★★★
With the release of The Last Ship, many fans may wonder if Sting the pop singer has returned. The answer comes quickly with a resounding "No, but I haven't forgotten all I learned while I wore that hat." Since Sacred Love, Sting has worn many hats--but ever since then, he has strayed far from the mantle of Sting the pop singer...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-10
★★★★★
When you achieve a certain stature in music, it comes with full permission to indulge. Sting' s The Last Ship , his first album of original material in 10 years, is a curious indulgence, focusing on the decline and fall of the shipbuilding industry in North East England. However worthy, it's a highly limited theme, one somewhat surprisingly doubling as a stage play of the same name destined for Broadway...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-09-27
★★★★★
For his first record of original music in a decade, Sting continues his restless musical journey by delving into musical theater. Many of the songs here will appear in the upcoming Broadway collaboration about a crosscurrent of stories amid the demise of the shipbuilding industry in a small English town. Eloquent and stately, the tracks bring traditional English folk music to broader theatrical conventions...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2013-09-30
★★★★★
September 24, 2013
The Last Ship is Sting's first album of new material he wrote himself in a decade, and it continues his effort to find fresh ways to connect with his audience. It's a collection of songs for an original play about the destruction of the shipping industry in Newcastle, the English port city where he grew up, as well as a meditation on mortality, community and fatherhood...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Has any other artist in the history of rock and roll ever squandered as much good will as Sting? In the late 1970s, the schoolteacher/jazz sideman moved to London and co-founded the Police, who bridged postpunk, pop, and reggae over five hit albums in five years. Just as the band reached its peak in 1983, Sting embarked on a solo career that started out fairly dubiously and went downhill from there...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Rating: The confidence and star quality that makes Sting Sting are as vibrant as ever on Live In Berlin, a recording taken from the ambitious Symphonicity tour that saw Sting present a symphonic career retrospective to sellout crowds worldwide. Only a handful of performers of the rock era have had the goods to back up their reputations of greatness. Sting has always been one of them, and proves in this DVD/CD package that he still is...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Sometimes being the leader of the biggest band on the planet isn't enough, and the artist formerly known as Gordon Sumner has previously spoken about how he was frustrated by the musical limitations of The Police. Indeed, since embarking on a solo career a quarter of a century ago, Sting has avidly pursued a restless, occasionally schizophrenic path, as this box set testifies...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-10-11
★★★★★
If you are at least 35 years old, then you've probably had the following experience. You're headed over to an old friend's house, a guy you haven't seen in a while. Man, in high school he was crazy and cool and, Oh, the trouble you guys used to get into! You wear your favorite pair of jeans and don't shave, but then again, you don't really shave that much anyway...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
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