ALAS, POOR SALMON, STING KNEW HIM WELL
Possibly the worst thing about the Police are their reviews. From the favorable ones you’d gather that this trio is God’s own gift to the discriminating pop music fan, while from the few (but firm) detractors you get the picture of three new wave poseurs manipulatively using reggae and punk elements to serve their own emotionally chilly and ultimately banal music.
ALAS, POOR SALMON, STING KNEW HIM WELL
RECORDS
THE POLICE Synchronicity (A&M)
Richard C. Walls
Possibly the worst thing about the Police are their reviews. From the favorable ones you’d gather that this trio is God’s own gift to the discriminating pop music fan, while from the few (but firm) detractors you get the picture of three new wave poseurs manipulatively using reggae and punk elements to serve their own emotionally chilly and ultimately banal music. So it’s always a little surprising to actually listen to the group and find a band which makes sophisticated and pleasurable music, music which spends most of its time transcending bassist/lead singer/ main songwriter Sting’s rather humdrum depressions.