The expectations were sky-high, writes Expressen's Kristin Lundell about the first of six concerts in Stockholm and rhetorically asks "are we getting the comeback of the century?" and answers herself:
"Well, maybe not ..."
And Lundell gets support from many of her colleagues, many of whom return to the group's weight, both in their music and in their position in Music Sweden.
"The band steps into the ring like the retired heavyweight champion they are," writes Johan Lindqvist in Göteborgs-Posten and states that the concert goes "pretty quickly and partly pretty unnoticed".
"This is Kent 2025. Still majestic. But a bit heavier. A bit clumsier," he writes and gives the concert three out of five in rating – which Markus Larsson in Aftonbladet also does.
New Golden Times?
"It sounds exactly like a band should and should do after being away for almost a decade. It sounds like stiff middle-management rock in a down jacket," writes Larsson and asks himself if Kent "will become the Golden Times now?".
"It was not on the map that this would musically become bad or even mediocre," writes Anders Dahlbom in his review in Expressen and gives a "strangely energyless" Kent three wasps.
The evening is saved "by the veritable battery of hits that this band has," writes he and likens the event to "a class reunion from back then".
The Audience Best
"Momentarily – okay, most of the time – the impact is almost painfully bombastic, but also precisely because of that so effective," writes Andres Lokko in Svenska Dagbladet.
"The hits are served at a furious pace, and you're reminded that they had quite a few, it doesn't really take an end," he writes about "a warm and humble evening".
Somewhat happier was Malin Johansson in Eskilstuna-Kuriren, who praises the city's big band and writes that "it was a fantastic concert".
But she notes that it "was the audience and nothing else that actually made the evening" while Kent "went up, ripped off all the songs one after another and then left the stage".
