Sweet - Isolation Boulevard (Metalville 2024) - Flying Fiddlesticks Review
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Sweet, Isolation Boulevard (Metalville 2024)
Sweet’s lockdown album Isolation Boulevard gets a reissue from Metalville.
The year was 2020 … fill in the blanks for your own personal recollection of misery. Sweet, the iconic band from the 1970s and 80s, took the opportunity when the governments of the world pressed pause on their citizens lives to re-record twelve classic tracks from their impressive back catalogue. The band for this operation was Andy Scott (guitar, synth, vocals), Bruce Bisland (drums, vocals), Paul Manzi (vocals), and Lee Small (bass, vocals).
Sweet certainly had a lot of tracks to choose from when selecting a dozen of their favorites. I think they did an good job of balancing pop classic fan favorites with a few deeper cuts, achieving a result all Sweet aficionados can appreciate. Here is the list: “Fox On The Run,” “Still Got The Rock,” “Action,” “Love Is Like Oxygen,” “Hellraiser,” “The Six Teens,” “Blockbuster,” “Set Me Free,” “Teenage Rampage,” “Turn It Down,” “New York Groove,” and “Ballroom Blitz.”
The older songs are dramatically improved in the re-recording, as we might expect from nothing more than the changes in technology. Latter works, especially “Love Is Like Oxygen,” sound a bit over-produced compared to the earlier versions, and not for the better. Overall, you can expect to hear a great smoothness on these tracks as compared with the originals. There are a couple of shocking omissions, like “Little Willy,” for example, and surprising inclusions, as with “New York Groove.” Still, I find the album to be an essential and fascinating part of the history of Sweet. Recommended.
Isolation Boulevard is out from Metalville Records on Friday, November 29th, just in time for that Thanksgiving hangover. Get yours at the links below, and listen in good health.
Links.
Sweet website, https://www.thesweet.com/
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/TheSweetOfficial/
Metalville Records, https://www.metalville.de/
© Wayne Edwards
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