57th and 9th

180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Sting’s twelfth solo studio album, 57th and 9th is his first pop / rock project in over a decade. The ten-song collection represents a wide range of Sting’s musical and songwriting styles, the first single I Can't Stop Thinking About You, shows Sting at his most propulsive and danceable, evidence of the influence his music continues to have on pop today. The album, produced Martin Kierszenbaum, takes its title from the Manhattan street corner that the musician would cross each day as he walked to the studios in Hell’s Kitchen where the recordings were done. Sting notes that if there’s a theme to be found in the lyrics of 57th and 9th, it’s the idea of travel and motion, most apparent in the autobiographical Heading South On The Great North Road and in Inshallah, an account of the global refugee crisis from a humanitarian point of view.