Much sought after but difficult to obtain internationally, Sweet’s Isolation Boulevard will be rereleased on 29th November via Metalville Records.
In 2019, Sweet embarked on the biggest tour of their long career to date, with the Still Got The Rock tour in Europe and the UK. In between, they even found time to fly to Australia to play as co-headliners on the Rock The Boat Cruise 2019. The band was fired up and looking forward to the future. But suddenly in 2020, the whole world was in turmoil, triggered by a global pandemic and all wheels came to a standstill overnight. For Sweet, there had to be a way out, otherwise, they felt musical creativity in all its forms would be lost forever.
So, in what was a new isolation for everyone, they began to produce an album with the new guys Paul Manzi and Lee Small and the old guard Andy Scott and Bruce Bislan. The album was given the title Isolation Boulevard to suit the situation. The songs being rerecordings of 12 classics from Sweet‘s extensive collection.
There was little time between the lockdowns in the UK to achieve the desired goal. On top of this, there were numerous technical obstacles that had to be overcome. With this in mind, the overall performance of everyone involved is all the more impressive, from the driving drums and bass to the in your face guitars and stratospheric vocals. In the end, it was a pleasure for everyone to record Isolation Boulevard, despite being under very strict distancing rules. The result speaks for itself.
Tracks featured on the album are ‘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’.
