The Pearl of Ever Changing Shell

Sweden's Isildurs Bane return with a new album.

This time the band is joined by singer Jinian Wilde, best known for his work in The David Cross Band. The result is another shift in direction while remaining true to the ethos that inspires and animates IB. Mats Johansson, who joined IB in 1977 standing not only as its longest-serving member, but also its principal composer and keyboardist comments, "Our work with Jinian is similar to how we worked with Peter Hammill and Marillion's Steve Hogarth. The music was developed for a year or so before we made contact with Jinian. The reason was to try to keep IB's expression basically, but that Jinian would have a free hand when it comes to vocal melodies, vocal harmonies, and lyrics of course".