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  • In the reggaeish 'Love Is the Seventh Wave', he sings of "All the bloodshed, all the anger/All the armies, all the missiles."

    The Dream of the Blue Turtles 1985

  • Their detached approach to pop riffers like 'Can't Stand Losing You' and 'So Lonely' (from the generally rockier 'Outlandos d'Amour') and 'Message In A Bottle' (from the overtly reggaeish new album) also mixes stylistic commitments: though driven by a new-wavish drums-guitar propulsion, the sound is rendered commercially clean by Sting's simple bass lines and arch, syncopated voice.

    Reggatta de Blanc 1979

  • Summery strums such as Life Worth Living and Take Me have a reggaeish bounce, and plenty more here will make for uncomplicated daytime radio fodder.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

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