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Title: Listen first, buy second.
Review: I bought this one without hearing single note of it... simply based on the fact that I have purchased everything Sting has released. That makes me a fan, right? But _Brand New Day_ leaves me cold. Difficult to believe that this is a man that once fronted a *punk rock outfit.* Not that I need more of the same - I somewhat enjoyed the oft-maligned _Mercury Falling_, in fact - but at some point Sting seemed to care a whole lot more about music. The worldbeat-influence on songs like "Desert Rose" comes off as a cloying artifice. I can buy into "Roxanne" a lot easier than I can into "Tommorrow We'll See." And the country-gospel turn of "Fill Her Up" could not possibly seem more disingenuous - well, I guess Sean Combs could remix it. Anyway, perhaps excepting that little _Brimstone and Treacle_ affair, _Brand New Day_ is my least favorite album by Sting. At least with _B & T_ you have all the screaming...
