During the band's farewell tour, Aino Oxblod and her friends attended all 28 concerts. The news this morning brings mixed emotions.
We put our whole soul into the farewell, she says and continues:
To then come back so soon, I find it hard not to see it as a betrayal as well. It feels a bit dishonest.
Aino Oxblod means that the farewell was bombastic – like a big funeral – where the last song they played was called "The Last Song".
They were super dramatic – which is what you like about Kent. Then you have to own it, and not come back, I think.
"In shock"
Even Paulina Loutchko, who is a member of Kent-the-fans, followed the band around to the different farewell concerts and says she is "in shock".
You know that many bands break up and still come back, but you thought that Kent wasn't like that, she says and adds that she is still happy to get to see them again.
Paulina Loutchko has seen the band perform around 80 times and plans to try to get tickets now as well, just like Aino Oxblod.
I can still get so proud and happy about how good they are. It will always stay with me.
Tina Mehrafzoon, music journalist at Sveriges Radio, believes that a major driving force is money. But she also suspects a midlife crisis among the band members.
That they now suddenly change their minds makes me wonder if it's about realizing that they were a bit too principled – and it's not that fun anymore. Apparently, they want to go back to what motivated them to start the band in the first place: out on stage and meeting fans, she says.
New audience
Journalist and columnist Kristin Lundell sees it as the band taking a kind of social responsibility. "Kent, Kent, beloved Kent. Think that it was you who would step in to breathe life into the low-conjuncture's poor body", she cheers in Expressen.
Even music journalist Fredrik Strage is happily shocked.
The records "You & I Death", "Back to the Present" and "Red" are untouchable. I know no other Swedish band that has come close to making such perfect records and they came after the big breakthrough, he says in an interview in P1 Morning.
Aino Oxblod also highlights that the new, young audience Kent has gained through Tiktok now gets a chance to see the band. What she most looks forward to, she hasn't decided yet.
But I wholeheartedly count on that whatever they come up with, it will be so damn crazy and so damn good.
