No more yellowing mattresses, no leaking toilets, no more psychodynamic digging. Isolation Years have left behind the group processes bordering on the insane. Instead they have done something that they never dared to do before: let go. Sign, Sign was recorded as it is, all together, no second takes. Sign, Sign is a reaction against the last album that was recorded during many weeks in a remote country estate in Västerbotten in the north of Sweden. There the smallest sound and the smallest element of each song was dissected. The songs were, simply put, going to be perfect. It was the hardest thing that Isolation Years had ever done. This time they didn't feel like working from fragments of ideas, so instead the whole of the group is in focus. Since the album title is Sign, Sign, it's easy to begin looking for hidden symbols and signs everywhere. The album cover for instance is a collection of straw in a lake, and you start to notice things about the straw. But Sign, Sign is really just a song title. In fact, all of Isolation Years' albums have been named after the title of one of the songs. Isolation Years is what you would call a real group. Everyone's opinion is equally important, everything is to be twisted and turned. Valued, tested. Almost like the collective families of the seventies. Looong meetings. Heavily steered processes. Things like that can become pretty hard. But also - for the final result - very good. The mix of opinions and wills seems to work like a quality filter. At the same time, all members admit to having a need for control. Or as keyboard player Mats puts it: The need for control without the ability to steer.....