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We shouldn't have done that record (reffering to Gran Turismo)
01/04/2011 22:37
How The Cardigans survived success
"We were messes. We shouldn't have done that record," says Persson - but she is proud the clipped, precise recordings "captured the atmosphere" in the studio.
As an example, Sveningsson explains that the hit single My Favourite Game, a driving...
Recording My Favourite Game
01/04/2011 22:06
The Cardigans are the biggest thing to come out of Sweden since, er, Ace Of Base, and their recent hit 'My Favourite Game' represented a successful change of musical direction. Sue Sillitoe tracks down their regular producer Tore Johansson in his Country Hell studio to talk about how the...
More pictures added!
01/04/2011 21:16
New pictures have been added to the Gallery section.
We are looking to post those "hard-to-find" images, those which you can't find in the majority of the other websites.
We also choose some "iconic" or "classic" cardigans', Nina Persson's and A Camp's pictures so you can have a more integrated...
Covers EP
27/03/2011 23:03
01 Boys Keep Swinging (David Bowie cover) / 02 Us And Them (Pink Floyd cover) / 03 I've Done It Again (Grace Jones cover)
Colonia
27/03/2011 23:00
If anyone is campaigning to do the soundtrack for Sofia Coppola's sequel to Marie Antoinette, a.k.a. Marie Antoinette II: How to Get A Head in Royalty Without Really Trying, it's Nina Persson (heck, the album's cover even features Persson's seemingly severed noggin). So maybe...
A Camp
27/03/2011 22:57
A Camp breathes new life into the career of the Cardigans' Nina Persson. Recorded partly in New York and partly in Sweden, and produced almost entirely by Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous with a great deal of engineering help and instrument swapping from Shudder to Think's Nathan Larson, A...
Emmerdale
27/03/2011 21:00
Signed to the Stockholm label, `The Cardigans' debut album `Emmerdale' (1994) (named in tribute to the British television show "Emmerdale Farm" (1972) showcased Persson's sweet voice and Svensson's winning way with a tune. Much attention was focused on Persson's...
Life (US Edition)
27/03/2011 20:00
The second album by the Swedish pop/rock mavericks may have begun life as an in-joke, but it was the definitive statement that launched them as a truly international force as well. Here was an album that demonstrated that not only did they have the multi-faceted writing skills to put them...
First Band On The Moon
27/03/2011 19:00
With `First Band on the Moon', released in 1996, the band developed into a more complex and dark mood, the songs were about heartbreak, infidelity and despair. The album also contained Persson's first solo writing credit, the plaintive `heartbreaker'. After being featured in Baz Luhrmann...
Gran Turismo
27/03/2011 18:00
The band reappeared in 1998 as a souped-up rock beast with 'Gran Turismo'. The video for `My Favourite Game' featured a tattooed Persson in a ´Thelma & Louise´(1991) esque role as a criminal on the run. It was the band's most consistent album to date, with several tracks written by...
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