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Sting / Mercury Falling expanded edition

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By Paul Sinclair

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Sting has announced an expanded edition of his fifth studio album, Mercury Falling, to mark the record’s 30th anniversary, although sadly this is not a physical release.

The 1996 album features the UK top 40 hits ‘Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot’, ‘You Still Touch Me’ and ‘I Was Brought To My Senses’ and was Sting’s last album to feature the production talents of Hugh Padgham, which underlines the feeling that this record was the end of a certain phase in Sting’s solo career.

This digital deluxe offers 19 bonus tracks culled mostly from CD singles of the era, with eight new to streaming, including three tracks performed on UK TV show, TFI Friday. There’s the usual selection of club-oriented remixes which sound pretty dated these days, although I wasn’t a fan at the time. These include two versions of Nothing Like The Sun‘s ‘Sister Moon’. The track ‘Moonlight’ was from the soundtrack of 1995 romantic comedy, Sabrina.

It was notable that Mercury Falling was omitted when all of Stings solo albums from the last millennium were reissued physically in Japan, last year. Whether they will play ‘catch up’ and do this one in the near future remains to be seen.

Although this expanded edition of Mercury Falling isn’t being released physically, there a new live album called The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum) will be issued on vinyl and CD in June. This captures Sting in a “breathtakingly intimate performance surrounded by works from Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and Judith Leyster” (!). With Dominic Miller and playing a 17th-century guitar crafted for Louis XIV (you couldn’t make this stuff up) he performs songs from The Last Ship alongside classics by The Police and his solo catalogue.

This digital-only expanded Mercury Falling is available on streaming platforms now and The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum) will be released on 26 June 2026 via Interscope.

Tracklisting

Mercury Falling Sting / Digital only Expanded Edition

    • Album
      1. The Hounds of Winter
      2. I Hung My Head
      3. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
      4. I Was Brought to My Senses
      5. You Still Touch Me
      6. I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying
      7. All Four Seasons
      8. Twenty Five to Midnight
      9. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
      10. Valparaiso
      11. Lithium Sunset
    • Bonus tracks
      1. Moonlight*
      2. The Bed’s Too Big Without You
      3. Lullaby to An Anxious Child
      4. Beneath a Desert Moon
      5. This Was Never Meant to Be
      6. The Pirate’s Bride
      7. Giacomo’s Blues
      8. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Classic Edit)
      9. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Full Testament Mix)
      10. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Great Divide Mix)
      11. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Great Divide Dub)
      12. I Was Brought To My Senses (Steve Lipson Remix)*
      13. Sister Moon (Hani Commissioned Club Mix)*
      14. Sister Moon (Hani Commissioned Dub)*
      15. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (Edit)
      16. You Still Touch Me (Edit)*
      17. You Still Touch Me (Live At TFI Friday)*
      18. Lithium Sunset (Live At TFI Friday) *
      19. Message In A Bottle (Live At TFI Friday)*
      *Previously Unavailable On Streaming Platforms

Tracklisting

The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum) Sting /

      1. Message in a Bottle
      2. The Last Ship
      3. The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
      4. Island of Souls
      5. All This Time
      6. What Say You, Meg?
      7. Roxanne
      8. Shape of My Heart
      9. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
      10. Fields of Gold
      11. Fragile
      12. Every Breath You Take

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