Brand New Day, Sting’s classic 1999 album, is back and getting much bigger. Brand New Day (Expanded Edition), featuring more than 20 remixes, demos, and live performances, is available now for listening on all major music streaming platforms. Many of the bonus tracks have never before been released digitally.
Fans now have the opportunity to revisit huge singles like “Brand New Day” and “Desert Rose” in ways that they have never heard before; or, if they have, likely not for a long time. The latter track, which was a major international hit and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, is here with a Filter Dub Version, a Radio Version, and the Melodic Club Mix. The new edition of the album also includes Sting’s demo version of the song, a relatively pared-back and slowed-down version of the familiar tune. This unearthed version also omits the recognizable vocal from Cheb Mami. The released album also includes a live version of the song.
Elsewhere in the track list, Brand New Day (Expanded Edition) also includes live versions of “A Thousand Years,” “After All The Rain Has Fallen,” and “Perfect Love Gone Wrong.” The tracks “Windmills Of Your Mind,” Sting’s rendition of the classic song that was included in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, and “End Of The Game” have also been included in the new release.
When it was first released in 1999, Brand New Day came more than 15 years after his band The Police concluded their world-dominating run. While his preceding albums had been recorded “very professionally,” Brand New Day was recorded more “on a lark,” as Sting told Billboard in 1999. “This was done for a gag, to have some fun with my friends,” he recalled. “I only admitted very late – fairly recently, in fact – that it was an actual record.” The gambit paid off; the album earned Sting two Grammys, and contains songs that are among his fans’ favorites.
Listen to the expanded edition of Sting’s Brand New Day now.