#1332 The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Keep trying to get into The Police. Can't. There's something too arch, too arms-length, too half-clever, everything you could not like about REM and Spoon, with a dollop of reggae and Sting's reedy little tinge besides. The instrumentals and other little reaches for art rock pique interest, but you spend most of the album waiting for something sincere or exciting to happen and nothing ever does 2/5