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POP REVIEW; Understated Showcase For Sting's New Songs
1996
Overview
Following the implicit advice of the new \"Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot,\" songs often look back to 1960's soul music, and Sting's band now includes a four-man horn section and three female backup singers. \"You Still Touch Me\" could almost be a version of \"Every Breath You Take\" backed by Booker T. and the M.G.'s.; \"25 to Midnight\" is Motown bent into an odd meter. Despite Sting's warnings, the music was in fine shape. \"I Hung My Head,\" about an accidental shooting, easily balanced between folk-rock and soul; \"All Four Seasons,\" about loving a changeable woman, had the easy calm and the abundant metaphors of its model, the Temptations' \"My Girl\" (written by Smokey Robinson). Only \"Valparaiso,\" about separation and a sea journey, lost its dreamy yearning in a strained, earthbound performance. \"We'll be back in the summer,\" Sting said after \"Fragile,\" the last encore. \"We'll be better.\" By then, the musicians will be more practiced; with luck, they'll hold on to an element of risk.
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