Record of the Day: Be Still My Beating Heart by Sting (1987)

Before Spotify had moods and playlists for every flavor of existential ache, there was this track: part jazz séance, part post-Police soul-search. Released on …Nothing Like the Sun, it’s Sting at his most vulnerable. And yes, that is Andy Summers weaving through the guitar haze like a ghost of breakups past.

Two Grammy nods. One Shakespearean nod. A title older than your grandma’s Jane Austen box set. And a black-and-white video directed by the duo behind Take On Me.
Like your heart after the third espresso: rapid, anxious, oddly romantic.