The Police – Synchronicity (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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The floodgates have finally opened and – as predicted in the SDE Reissue Preview for 2024 – The Police will issue a 6CD super deluxe edition of their smash 1983 album Synchronicity which offers masses of unheard alternates, outtakes and demos!!

The band’s fifth and final studio album, Synchroncity features the singles ‘Every Breath You Take’, ‘Wrapped Around Your Finger’, ‘King of Pain’ and ‘Synchronicity II’ and went on to sell 15m globally, with 8.5m in the USA alone.For large swaths of Gen X, Synchronicity was a landmark album, not solely due to its omnipresence on radio and MTV but also because the album was a little scary. Whether it was monsters and aching eyeballs (“Synchronicity II”), actresses under duress (“Miss Gradenko”), mass extinction events and the existential crises they evoke (“Walking in Your Footsteps”), stalkers (“Every Breath You Take”), or, of course, mommy issues (“Mother”), the lyrical approach for the album (and, in the case of “Mother,” everything else, too), bundled up all the postmodern anxieties of ’80s adults and delivered them to kids who maybe just wanted a follow-up to “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.” Synchronicity definitely was not that, but instead seemed like a buffet of nightmare material that just happened to be catchy as hell. While Ghost in the Machine found the group streamlining their sound into something that was less tetchy and more accessible than their earliest albums, with Synchronicity, it was clear that this was not a path the band had any interest in pursuing further. While the album continued to downplay (to the point of near-elimination) the reggae influences that made the group so distinctive early in their career, it also continued to expand their sonic palette with synths and orchestration. On Ghost, these new sounds were deployed in the interest of smoothing out the band’s more arch edges, while on Synchronicity, all the experimentation seems designed to unsettle the listener. And it is an unsettling album, not just because of its lyrics, but also due omnipresent taut tension in the music that was, obviously, a side effect of the intrapersonal and creative unease within the Police (which also led to an approach that found each of the three members challenging each other to greatness).

The result was one of the weirdest mainstream albums ever, as thick with references to Jungian psychology as it was with indelible hooks and virtuosic musicianship. It’s also a profoundly pretentious album that manages to make good on its pretense while still yielding surprises and satisfaction decades later—something that can be said of few of its contemporaries. This long-awaited deluxe edition fully rounds out the Synchronicity experience, with studio tracks that didn’t make the LP cut, but are still just as thematically resonant; the CD/cassette bonus track “Murder By Numbers” sounds like it could have been a Zenyatta Mondatta leftover, but it’s about serial killers, while “Once Upon A Daydream” jauntily addresses abortion and killing a father-in-law, saying it’s “no place for sentiment.” Yikes! Meanwhile, “Every Bomb You Make,” the parody track from the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image that somehow managed to get Sting to sing on, is both on-the-nose ridiculous and also a reminder of how anxious and earnest the mid-’80s were. Additionally, there are dozens of demos and alternate versions, and a previously unreleased live show from Oakland during the Synchronicity tour. – Jason Ferguson

Tracklist:

1-01. The Police – Synchronicity I (Remastered 2023) (03:22)
1-02. The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps (Remastered 2023) (03:36)
1-03. The Police – O My God (Remastered 2023) (04:02)
1-04. The Police – Mother (Remastered 2023) (03:05)
1-05. The Police – Miss Gradenko (Remastered 2023) (01:59)
1-06. The Police – Synchronicity II (Remastered 2023) (05:01)
1-07. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2023) (04:13)
1-08. The Police – King Of Pain (Remastered 2023) (04:58)
1-09. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Remastered 2023) (05:13)
1-10. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Remastered 2023) (04:13)
1-11. The Police – Murder By Numbers (Remastered 2023) (04:35)
2-01. The Police – Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (03:48)
2-02. The Police – Man In A Suitcase (Live At The Variety Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16th January 1981) (02:18)
2-03. The Police – Someone To Talk To (03:04)
2-04. The Police – Message In A Bottle (Live At The Gusman Cultural Center, Miami, USA / 26th October 1979) (04:50)
2-05. The Police – I Burn For You (04:53)
2-06. The Police – Once Upon A Daydream (03:31)
2-07. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983) (05:04)
2-08. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Backing Track) (04:07)
2-09. The Police – Roxanne (Backing Track) (03:12)
2-10. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983) (05:25)
2-11. The Police – Every Bomb You Make (03:22)
2-12. The Police – Walking On The Moon (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983) (05:01)
2-13. The Police – Hole In My Life (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983) (03:52)
2-14. The Police – One World (Not Three) [Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983] (05:33)
2-15. The Police – Invisible Sun (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 2nd November 1983) (04:45)
2-16. The Police – Murder By Numbers (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 2nd November 1983) (04:37)
2-17. The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps (Derangement) (03:52)
2-18. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Derangement) (03:35)
3-01. The Police – Synchronicity I (Demo) (03:32)
3-02. The Police – Synchronicity I (Alternate Mix) (03:52)
3-03. The Police – Synchronicity I (Instrumental) (03:22)
3-04. The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Version) (04:37)
3-05. The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Mix) (04:02)
3-06. The Police – O My God (Demo) (04:36)
3-07. The Police – O My God (Out-Take) (05:14)
3-08. The Police – O My God (OBX Version) (04:25)
3-09. The Police – O My God (Alternate Mix) (03:44)
3-10. The Police – Mother (Alternate Version) (03:06)
3-11. The Police – Mother (Instrumental) (03:12)
3-12. The Police – Miss Gradenko (Alternate Mix) (02:00)
3-13. The Police – Synchronicity II (Demo) (05:07)
3-14. The Police – Synchronicity II (Out-Take) (04:33)
3-15. The Police – Synchronicity II (Extended Version) (05:48)
3-16. The Police – Synchronicity II (Alternate Mix) (04:54)
3-17. The Police – Synchronicity II (Instrumental) (04:56)
4-01. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Demo) (04:00)
4-02. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Out-Take) (05:17)
4-03. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Alternate Mix) (04:03)
4-04. The Police – King Of Pain (Demo) (04:14)
4-05. The Police – King Of Pain (Alternate Version) (04:48)
4-06. The Police – King Of Pain (Alternate Mix) (04:58)
4-07. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Demo) (04:45)
4-08. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Alternate Mix) (04:54)
4-09. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Instrumental) (05:15)
4-10. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Demo) (04:23)
4-11. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Mix) (04:13)
4-12. The Police – Murder By Numbers (Demo) (03:25)
4-13. The Police – I’m Blind (Demo) (03:29)
4-14. The Police – Loch (01:59)
4-15. The Police – Ragged Man (02:41)
4-16. The Police – Goodbye Tomorrow (03:12)
4-17. The Police – Truth Hits Everybody (Remix / Out-Take) (04:03)
4-18. The Police – Three Steps To Heaven (02:48)
4-19. The Police – Rock And Roll Music (01:55)
5-01. The Police – Synchronicity I (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (02:56)
5-02. The Police – Synchronicity II (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:53)
5-03. The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:09)
5-04. The Police – Message In A Bottle (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:23)
5-05. The Police – Walking On The Moon (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:23)
5-06. The Police – O My God (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (03:46)
5-07. The Police – De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:49)
5-08. The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (05:29)
5-09. The Police – Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:33)
5-10. The Police – Spirits In The Material World (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (03:09)
6-01. The Police – Hole In My Life (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:58)
6-02. The Police – Invisible Sun (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (05:35)
6-03. The Police – One World (Not Three) [Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983] (05:34)
6-04. The Police – King Of Pain (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (06:23)
6-05. The Police – Don’t Stand So Close To Me (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (03:52)
6-06. The Police – Murder By Numbers (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:40)
6-07. The Police – Every Breath You Take (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (04:34)
6-08. The Police – Roxanne (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (05:52)
6-09. The Police – Can’t Stand Losing You (Live At The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983) (08:35)