Four Sting albums on five 180-gram heavyweight LPs, continuing the vinyl reissue of his solo catalogue.

The collection gathers Songs From The Labyrinth (2006), the record of John Dowland’s Elizabethan lute songs performed with Edin Karamazov that surprised everyone who expected another pop album; If On A Winter’s Night… (2009), his collection of carols, lullabies and seasonal folk songs, spread across two LPs; Symphonicities (2010), which reworked songs from across his career with full orchestral arrangements; and 57th & 9th (2016), the loud, guitar-driven rock record he made after more than a decade away from the form.

Each album is presented in a gatefold sleeve, and the set arrives in a protective cardboard box designed with additional space so owners can house the LPs from Volume I alongside them.

Taken together the four records make the case for the most restless stretch of Sting’s career, when he moved between lute music, Christmas folk song, orchestral reinvention and straight-ahead rock with incredible ease.