Sting - The Soul Cages

Primary Artist
Sting
Album Title
The Soul Cages
Release Date
January 17, 1991 
Time
48:10 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Emboldened by the enthusiastic response to the muted Nothing Like The Sun and reeling from the loss of his parents, Sting constructed The Soul Cages as a hushed mediation on mortality, loss, grief, and father/son relationships (the album is dedicated, in part, to his father; its predecessor was dedicated to his mother). Using the same basic band as Nothing Like The Sun, the album has the same supple, luxurious tone, stretching out leisurely over nine tracks, almost all of them layered mid-tempo tunes (the exception being grinding guitars of the title track). Read More