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Ten Summoner's Tales

by Sting

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Overall Rating: 3.1742 Ten Summoner's Tales is ranked overall as 3.1742 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.6000 Ten Summoner's Tales has an avg. critic score of 3.6000 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

After two albums of muted, mature jazz-inflected pop, the last being an explicit album about death, Sting created his first unapologetically pop album sincethe PolicewithTen Summoner's Tales. ...more

Rolling Stone

After the searing catharsis of "The Soul Cages" (1991), Sting's intensely private eulogy for his father, "Ten Summoner's Tales," seems like an intentional crowd pleaser (despite its title, lifted from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"): the former Police-man crafting hooks as handily as he has sold out arenas. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Let's see what's left? Since the last Police album, in 1983, Sting has been through an esoteric jazz phase (1985's ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles''), done time as an artist-activist (the 1988 Amnesty International tour), and suffered through a period of mourning (''The Soul Cages'') that had all the exuberance of a root canal. ...more

Yahoo! Music

After the harrowing--make that depressing--songs of The Soul Cages , the comparative lightness of the material here came as a welcome relief. Opening track "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" is typically Sting-y. ...more

Yahoo! Music

After two albums of muted, mature jazz-inflected pop, the last being an explicit album about death, Sting created his first unapologetically pop album since the Police with Ten Summoner's Tales. ...more

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