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The Soul Cages
Rock · 1991 · 9 tracks

The Soul Cages

Sting

A maritime concept album navigating the heavy fog of grief. Intricate, nautical-themed art rock recorded with high-fidelity precision and deep emotional stakes.

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It's a beautifully bleak maritime ghost story about saying goodbye to your father.

A heavy, salt-sprayed meditation on mortality and the industrial ghosts of the past.

The Soul Cages · vs · Sting
Ocean+3.8σ

Ocean saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks
01
Island of Souls
6:42
02
All This Time
4:55
03
Mad About You
3:54
04
Jeremiah Blues, Part 1
4:55
05
Why Should I Cry for You (radio mix)
4:47
06
Saint Agnes and the Burning Train
2:43
07
The Wild Wild Sea
6:42
08
The Soul Cages
5:52
09
When the Angels Fall
7:50
Moments Worth Waiting For
The haunting uilleann pipes and Northumbrian smallpipes that introduce the shipyard narrative in Island of Souls
The sudden, driving rock energy of the title track that breaks the album's prevailing somber mist
The way the bassline in All This Time provides a jaunty, deceptive counterpoint to lyrics about burying a father at sea
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