Music Capsule Review

STING (1999)

Brand New Day (A&M)

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Lead Performance: Sting

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By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

Maybe Sting should consider relocating from the Hamptons to Nashville, seeing how this is his second album in a row where the standout is a putative country song -- albeit a mini-epic one that shifts to gospel-jazz in 9/8 time halfway through. ''Fill Her Up'' is one of only a couple songs to have an immediately discernible pulse. For all the tricky time signatures, the world-beat New Age noir of Day offers plenty of passing harmonic pleasures and not much overt passion, good enough if you like your aural wallpaper measured out in shifting meters. B-

Posted Oct 01, 1999

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