Title: Sting was the Police!
Review: Sting makes his strongest solo effort on this album as he expresses his consistent despair about a world persistent on crushing the individual. Sting returns to consistent Police concerns about dark oppressors bent on erasing the human spirit, but gives them urgency by introducing more autobiographical elements than we've seen from him before. This is a man clearly searching for resolution amidst his personal demons. As with all the best Police material, "Island of Lost Souls" reminds us that we are imprisoned souls, caught in the machinery of this world.
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