{"product_id":"sting-the-soul-cages","title":"Sting - The Soul Cages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Soul Cages is Sting at his most haunted, a 1991 album about grief, the sea and the shipyards of his Tyneside childhood. It remains the most personal record he has made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten after the death of his father and a long spell of writer's block, his third solo studio album turns loss into a song cycle steeped in North East imagery: rusting hulls, cold tides, a boy watching ships leave the slipway. Co-produced with Hugh Padgham, it trades the jazz-pop sparkle of his earlier solo work for something moodier and more searching, without ever losing his gift for melody.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsland of Souls opens the record with a story of a shipbuilder's son dreaming of escape, setting the tone for everything that follows. All This Time is the deceptively breezy single, a jaunty tune wrapped around a burial at sea. Mad About You drifts in on exotic colours and a slow-burning obsession, while the title track storms in on heavy guitar and an almost folk-tale menace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorthumbrian pipes, sax lines and folk-tinged arrangements give the album its weathered, salt-air texture, and Sting's voice sounds closer and rawer than usual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who knows him mainly through the hits, this is the record that shows how deep the well goes. It rewards a full, uninterrupted listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57453142081841,"sku":"082839640510","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Sting-The_Soul_Cages.jpg?v=1794228098","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/sting-the-soul-cages","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}