- Record Label: Hypnotic / Cleopatra
- Release Date: Aug 13, 2002
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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MarkPFeb 22, 2006If all music was the same I would get bored. So when a brilliant group changes their direction and it works, well, bravo!!!!! This is bloody great. One of those albums that needs to be listened to more than once, but once it clicks, it's SEX.
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MarkussXFeb 25, 2005FSOL's "The Isness" comes as something rather new and different from the band's earlier work. A mix of 90's-like electronic backbone and hippie and disco effects...The guitar sound is fantastic and the Richard Ashcroft-like psychedelic vocals are "hypnotic". Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans have my utmost respect
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SeanTFeb 9, 2004
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RobertFJan 11, 2003Yes, sure, this is not FSOL in the times of Lifeforms or my Kingdom, but it´s magic too!
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FlexFlexOct 1, 2002Such a pity. I was really looking forward to this album, but... This is not an FSOL. This isn't A. Androginous either. They have been evoluting in the completely wrong direction.
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BrapSep 30, 2002Magic.
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ElliottSep 29, 2002It really is brilliant. One of the best albums of the year.
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IcarasT.Sep 4, 2002this album is farking brilliant...along with other worthy realeases from the fsol arsenal...it presents luscious beats and ambience unrivaled by earlier realease...even so lifeforms! the isness is going into uncharted territory and is showcasing fsol experimatalism in fields they have barely touched, with great sucess in my view....watt a wicked mf! buy it now!!
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MilodeMiloAug 21, 2002
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Awards & Rankings
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Interestingly enough, the group manages to pull most of it off, but not without some stops into new-age and downright silly territory.
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Q MagazineIt's the songs which seal The Isness's fate. [Sep 2002, p.100]
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Through it all they keep it both consistent (without being same-y) and experimental (without being disorienting).