| "Isolation" | ||||
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| Studio album by Carpathian | ||||
| Released | 2 August 2008 | |||
| Recorded | The Getaway Group, Boston and Complex Studios, Melbourne | |||
| Genre | Hardcore | |||
| Length | 25:57 | |||
| Label | Resist Records Deathwish (DWI79) |
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| Producer | Jay Maas & Roman Koester | |||
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Isolation is the second studio album by Australian hardcore punk band Carpathian. The album peaked at No. 19 on the Australian ARIA Charts. The song "'Permanent" takes lyrics from "Something Must Break" by Joy Division. The title track and "Ceremony" also share their names with Joy Division songs. The album is packaged in a Jakebox. It received number 1 in the ShortFastLoud top 40 countdown of the year on triple J.
Contents |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Isolation" | 1:43 |
| 2. | "Cursed" | 3:03 |
| 3. | "Spirals" | 2:00 |
| 4. | "Insomnia" | 2:33 |
| 5. | "The Cold Front" | 2:58 |
| 6. | "Deadbeats..." | 1:45 |
| 7. | "Sun Heights" | 2:53 |
| 8. | "Seventyk" | 3:09 |
| 9. | "Ceremony" | 3:02 |
| 10. | "Permanent" | 2:49 |
| Charts (2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Albums Chart[1] | 19 |
There are several references to the band Joy Division within the album.
Several songs ("Isolation", "Ceremony", "Permanent") share names with Joy Division songs. Several lines are influenced or taken from Joy Division songs. "Isolation" has the line "As Routine Bites Hard" which is similar to that of the line in "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which has the line "When Routine Bites Hard", and "I Am Permanence" which is similar to the line in "Twenty Four Hours" "So This Is Permanance".
The final song, "Permanent", also takes lyrics from Joy Division's "Something Must Break". In this song, the first letter of each line spells out wrecked, which is another song by them.
Several lyrics refer to singer Jeff Buckley, with lyrics in the song "Spirals". The words "all young lovers know why nightmares plague their minds" mirror Jeff Buckley lyrics "All young lovers know why nightmares plague their mind's eye", from the song "Nightmares by the sea", which is also referred to in the "Sun Heights" with the lyrics "amidst nightmares by the fucking sea".
There are also a few references to previous Carpathian songs. In "On End Of The 1980s", on the album Nothing to Lose, is the line "We're All So Fucking Dead". In the song "Spirals" on Isolation, this becomes "I Know I Said We're All So Dead, But I'm Not Ready For Death Yet".