The Cardigans Discography

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...

The Other Side Of The Moon (compilation)

27/03/2011 17:00
  The Other Side Of The Moon is a 16-track collection of rare material performed by smooth pop quintent The Cardigans and includes a lounge-inspired version of Thin Lizzy`s "The Boys Are Back In Town." A 16-track collection chock-full of B-sides and other rarities,...

Long Gone Before Daylight

27/03/2011 16:00
  Nina Persson brought her musical influence and lyrical confidence from 'A Camp' (2001) to the next `Cardigans' album, `Long Gone Before Daylight'. The album chronicles Persson's disillusionment, disappointment and her ultimately love with Nathan Larson (who she married with on June...

Super Extra Gravity

27/03/2011 15:00
      Super Extra Gravity follows the lead of 2004's earnest Gone Before Daylight, but with slightly harder, more jagged edges. But whilst lyrically Gone... is set in a bubble of an intense relationship going right and wrong, SEG takes inspiration from farther afield. Religion is one...

Best Of

27/03/2011 14:00
  How The Cardigans survived success By Mark Savage  Entertainment reporter, ...