Category: SWEET

SWEET’s new album, ”Isolation Boulevard”, recorded within the necessary constraints imposed by the Covid-19 global pandemic, plays on the title of the mid-70s album by the band’s classic line-up: ‘Desolation Boulevard’.
Sweet’s leader Andy Scott says: ”’The cover artwork tips a hat to Desolation Boulevard, 1975 and the band’s first Headline Tours in the USA. The comparison between the old and new is obvious as they are both a compilation of the best of Sweet’s recordings, satisfaction guaranteed.“
First of all: if you don’t like SWEET you better check out the band’s new line-up: on lead vocals there’s Paul Manzi (CATS IN SPACE), and Lee Small (LIONHEART, SHY) play bass and harmony vocals, and also does some lead.
Second: in the track list there’s a fresh re-recording of ”New York Groove”. I love this song, and believe me, this is the best version I have heard, even better than Frehley’s one. This track worth the album alone.

* The SWEET are great. The mere mention of the of these seminal glam hard rockers’ name brings a joyous smile immediately to the face. Hits such as ‘Ballroom Blitz’, ‘Blockbuster’, ‘Hellraiser’, ‘Fox On The Run’ and ‘Love Is Like Oxygen’ were all UK Top Ten hits that made Sweet into a household name, going on to sell 55 million...