Exciting times: Sting to return with new album

‘57th & 9th’ to be out on November 11 this year

NEW YORK: Sting has announced that his new album will come out later this year, in a return to his rock roots that will touch on the migrant crisis and climate change.

57th & 9th, the title an allusion to the intersection where the Englishman in New York heads to the studio, will come out on November 11, his label said.

The former front man of The Police said that the album would return to a rock sound after years of more experimental work. “It’s rockier than anything I’ve done in awhile,” he said.

A long-time advocate for Amnesty International and other human rights causes, Sting said a song on the album, Inshallah, will explore mass migration into Europe and another, One Fine Day, will attack deniers of climate change. “The biggest engine for migration will be climate. Millions of people will be looking for somewhere safe,” he said.

“I’m still in a bit of a depression about Britain exiting the EU for no good reason. At least the EU has a program to tackle climate change,” he said, referring to the landmark June 23 referendum on Brexit.

The 64-year-old rocker said that the album will also feature a dark ballad entitled 50,000 that he wrote when contemplating mortality after pop icon Prince’s death.

Sting’s last album, 2013’s The Last Ship, accompanied his Broadway musical of the same name that was based on his childhood memories living around shipbuilding.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 23^rd, 2016.

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