Recorded in 2020, as a tour-toughened Sweet lineup (then comprising recently added bassist Lee Small and lead vocalist Paul Manzi, alongside long-standing drummer Bruce Bisland, who replaced Mick Tucker in ’92, and 54-year-veteran guitarist Andy Scott) faced career-halting global lockdown, Isolation Boulevard captures a dozen re-recorded versions of the band’s greatest hits.
Projects like this often seem somewhat surplus to requirements, but considering the Sweet captured here are five decades removed from the Sweet that first banged out the majority of Isolation Boulevard’s material and that 75 per cent of the Popswop-bothering glamsters of yore are no longer with us, this particular revamp makes more sense than most.
