Like it’s predecessor, Ghost In The Machine, the Synchronicity album was recorded on Montserrat although writing for the album started as early as 1982 when Sting was staying in Jamaica. The band gathered on Montserrat in December 1982 with producer Hugh Padgham, each bringing in their own songs. It was important to Sting, that Synchronicity sounded different. “There were a lot of clone groups who sounded like us coming up, so it was important that we didn’t manufacture the kind of album where we all played our favourite licks. I felt the songs I wrote were different, so the playing had to be different,” he said.