Audio CD review:
Kent - Isola

Kent - Isola

Band: Kent Title: Isola Rating: Release Date: 15 September, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Lifesavers 2: If You Were Here 3: Things She Said 4: Unprofessional 5: OWC 6: Celsius 7: Bianca 8: Before It All Ends 9: Elvis 10: Velvet 11: Glider 12: 747

Customer Reviews Very Good - Get the "Dom Andra" Title I personally like the track "FF" on that disc. I would get the Dom Andra title they have which is in their native language, but I think it still sounds really good. . One of the greatest bands of all time... Their Isola album, realeased in the US from Sweden in 1998, rivaled British acts similar to Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, and US bands like Smashing Pumpkins. Kent is largely unheard, and that's really the only reason only few of us got to enjoy this masterpiece here in the US. But besides maybe small doses of it played on cable TV's ALTERNATIVE stations, several years after it's release, it went unplayed on the US radio dials. And that's just awful, because it was every music lover's right to hear this album, and many of Rock's faithful were unjustly denied the beauty and genius Kent offers on Isola. If it's helpful, you might draw a comparison to lead singer Jocke's voice by mixing that of two other Rock Gods. . . Yorke and Corgan together. The music backdrop to his voice often stunning art, too. This album's vibe seems like the instrumental minds that drove Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead made an album together. Yes, it's original as well, yet somehow slightly familar. I read on their website the sounds they keep and produce as music on their albums is only the music which gives Jocke chills. I would say that listening to this album will cause you the same. . . chills. Even after you've listened to it hundreds of times over. No matter the cost, buy any English version of any album they make!!!. It won't hurt when the killing is done by a friend Jocke has the vocals of a dead man, so to speak, cold, pale and unforgiving, but while the point is made painfully clear there could be little left to be desired. Kent is, without a doubt something completely unique. The entire album is sung through languid smoke, through the wintry days of the north. The songs have an overall sense of disappointment or maybe more the sense of causing disappointment than nothing else. In the beginning Lifesavers and If you were here kick off with a sort of repetitive air, trying to convince you that there is hope left but soon OWC and Celsius show you the ruins of a doomed relationship and the songs flow onward to represent something much more realistic than you'll ever find. Kent has managed to capture a balance in its lyrics; the songs aren't about endless or perfect love, but of human situations. And of course, in the end, after this almost desperate cynicism, after the last beats of Glider die out and you half expect the CD to be over, begins the masterpiece of 747. It's sad, melancholic, simple, utterly logical and it grabs you, slowly at first but then growing momentum and gliding off almost endlessly. 7 minutes and 47 seconds suddenly seem short. . You can see a complete list of all Kent discography, or go back to the Kent tabs