Sting on his new album Symphonicities:

“There’s a bit of cabaret, it’s a lit­tle bit mid­dle of the road, but I’m try­ing to cre­ate some­thing new in this inter­face between pop and sym­phonic music. I think these songs have enough har­monic move­ment in them to war­rant a sym­phony orches­tra play­ing them. I want them to sound like a rhyth­mic unit as opposed to aural wall­pa­per for somebody’s van­ity. It’s son­i­cally rich: you can do almost any­thing with an orches­tra. I don’t know where it’s going, but that’s some­thing I love. The jour­ney itself is the reward.”

Rob Mathes, musi­cal direc­tor for the project added this bit from his blog:

Regarding the crit­ics, I hope some lis­ten all the way through to hear the blis­ter­ing “She’s Too Good For Me” which I have described as Stravinsky writ­ing a Roadhouse blues, to hear “Pirate’s” and “Black Seam”, the moody and brood­ing “Burn For You”, a Sting com­po­si­tion from his early 20′s. There is enough beau­ti­ful stuff in there to raise the eye­brows of even fero­cious naysay­ers. In the end you just have to do the best you can and let the work speak for itself.

The album is Sting at his best, musi­cally rich, unpre­dictable and gen­uinely fresh. And as he noted at the inter­view: “The jour­ney itself is the reward.”