℗ 2022 A&M Records
| Released | June 17, 2022 |
| Originated | November 19, 2021 |
| Duration | 1h 12m 46s |
| Record Label | A&M |
| Genre | Pop |
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1.1
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Rushing Water
Sting |
3:17 | |||
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1.2
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If It's Love
Sting |
3:14 | |||
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1.3
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The Book of Numbers
Sting |
3:18 | |||
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1.4
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Loving You
Sting |
4:24 | |||
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1.5
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Harmony Road
Sting |
3:18 | |||
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1.6
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For Her Love
Sting |
3:45 | |||
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1.7
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The Hills on the Border
Sting |
4:16 | |||
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1.8
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Captain Bateman
Sting |
4:14 | |||
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1.9
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The Bells of St. Thomas
Sting |
4:08 | |||
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1.10
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The Bridge
Sting |
2:33 | |||
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1.11
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Waters of Tyne
Sting |
2:10 | |||
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1.12
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Captain Bateman's Basement
Sting |
3:41 | |||
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1.13
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(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Sting |
2:54 | |||
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1.14
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Shape Of My Heart (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
4:40 | |||
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1.15
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Fragile (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
3:30 | |||
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1.16
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Message In A Bottle (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
4:49 | |||
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1.17
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If It's Love (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
3:43 | |||
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1.18
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Rushing Water (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
3:16 | |||
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1.19
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For Her Love (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon)
Sting |
3:55 | |||
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1.20
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Por Su Amor
Sting; KURT |
3:41 |
17-time Grammy Award winning musician Sting has released The Bridge, a brand-new album distributed via A&M/Interscope/Cherrytree Records.
The Bridge showcases Sting’s prolific and diverse songwriting prowess, with this new set of songs representing styles and genres explored throughout his unrivalled career. The album was written in a year of global pandemic and finds Sting ruminating on personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown, and extraordinary social and political turmoil.
Exploring a multitude of concepts and themes, a “bridge” represents the enduring and ever-evolving link between ideas, cultures, continents, and even the banks of a river. It’s also a route into the past, and so it was that Sting found himself considering the music and the places that have formed his own foundations, and that indeed are embedded in his very DNA.
He explains, “These songs are between one place and another, between one state of mind and another, between life and death, between relationships. Between pandemics, and between eras – politically, socially and psychologically, all of us are stuck in the middle of something. We need a bridge.”
Written and recorded over the last year in lockdown, a coterie of trusted musicians beamed into Sting’s studio remotely including Dominic Miller (guitar), Josh Freese (drums), Branford Marsalis (saxophone), Manu Katché (drums), Martin Kierszenbaum (keyboards), Fred Renaudin (synthesizer) and backing vocalists Melissa Musique, Gene Noble, Jo Lawry and Laila Biali, The Bridge’s influences are vast; from grappling with the murky origins of the folk ballads in Cecil Sharp’s ‘Collection of English Folk Songs’, to J. Robert Oppenheimer, from the Roman history of Northumbria to Saint Thomas.
This "Super Deluxe" edition features 10 all-new bonus tracks, including seven tracks from the "FIP Session", recorded live in Paris at the Pantheon.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – A&M Studio Masters
Track 13 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
Track 13 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.20 -0.20 to -0.20 | -12.25 -15.33 to -10.04 | -10.04 -13.50 to -7.00 | 7 5 to 10 | |
| 1 | Rushing Water | -0.20 | -10.05 | -7.3 | 5 |
| 2 | If It's Love | -0.20 | -10.04 | -7.0 | 6 |
| 3 | The Book of Numbers | -0.20 | -11.46 | -9.4 | 5 |
| 4 | Loving You | -0.20 | -12.22 | -10.1 | 7 |
| 5 | Harmony Road | -0.20 | -11.18 | -9.1 | 6 |
| 6 | For Her Love | -0.20 | -12.07 | -9.9 | 6 |
| 7 | The Hills on the Border | -0.20 | -11.35 | -8.5 | 6 |
| 8 | Captain Bateman | -0.20 | -10.91 | -8.9 | 5 |
| 9 | The Bells of St. Thomas | -0.20 | -13.25 | -11.6 | 8 |
| 10 | The Bridge | -0.20 | -13.96 | -11.2 | 9 |
| 11 | Waters of Tyne | -0.20 | -13.35 | -10.8 | 8 |
| 12 | Captain Bateman's Basement | -0.20 | -10.27 | -8.1 | 6 |
| 13 | (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | -0.20 | -10.95 | -8.4 | 7 |
| 14 | Shape Of My Heart (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -12.74 | -11.4 | 8 |
| 15 | Fragile (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -15.33 | -13.5 | 10 |
| 16 | Message In A Bottle (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -13.04 | -11.0 | 8 |
| 17 | If It's Love (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -13.21 | -10.6 | 8 |
| 18 | Rushing Water (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -12.93 | -10.9 | 7 |
| 19 | For Her Love (FIP Session Live in Paris at the Pantheon) | -0.20 | -13.94 | -12.3 | 9 |
| 20 | Por Su Amor | -0.20 | -12.75 | -10.8 | 7 |