Slant Magazine did an article on the top 100 albums of the decade. The Cardigans “Long Gone Before Daylight” came in at number 80.
The subdued music, almost country, puts Persson’s potent heartache front-stage, where it belongs.
The Fashionable Housewife Blog has a post about how to keep lips soft and supple for Valentine’s Day.
In it, she quotes Nina Persson as saying
6. “A Swede would never walk outside in extreme hot or cold weather without applying LypSyl before leaving the house.” – Nina Persson (Singer, Lyricist of The Cardigans, Swedish Grammy Award Winner)
Apparently, LypSyl is available at Walgreens, RiteAid, etc for $2.99
I guess if anyone knows how to keep lips from being perfect in extreme cold it would be the Swedes.
I’m happy to repost the post below from The Cardigans forums. Not only is it a great way to hear early Cardigans material, but now all the bootlegers selling these EPs for $200+ will be put out of business!
The World According To… EP
Second demo tape recorded in 1992
Nina Persson, Mattias Alfheim, Peter Svensson, Magnus Sveningsson and Bengt Lagerberg
FLAT ©1992 – cardies2
Tracklist:
01 Rise and Shine 03:35
02 Happy Here 03:21
03 Wrapped 03:00
04 Hard 03:50
MP3 Format:
Rise and Shine.mp3
Happy Here.mp3
Wrapped.mp3
Hard.mp3
Megaupload: The World According To.zip
Rapidshare: The World According To.zip
FLAC/Lossless Format:
Megaupload: The World According To.zip
Rapidshare: The World According To.zip
Communicate This! blog gave their top 5 albums of 2009 with A Camp’s Colonia coming in at #4.
It’s a beautifully constructed piece, with no dud tracks, all with lyrics that veer wildly from prophetic and deep to caustic and rude to fantasy and whimsy. It’s put together over some very pleasant guitar-and-strings style backing, kind of like little guitar concertos, and I think it’s very good.
Discopop Directory gives their rundown of the top 10 albums of 2009, with Colonia from A Camp coming in at number 3.
A cheery record about rape, pillage, divorce and war in the Belgian Congo. The work of former Cardigan Nina Persson, her husband Nathan Larson and Atomic Swing’s Niclas Frisk, Colonia was inspired by 60s girl-pop and the works of Adam Ant. Brilliantly, it manages to sound nothing like either of them. Instead, it’s a sumptuous, orchestral, alt-rock album, encompassing bittersweet ballads (Stronger Than Jesus), regal waltzes (The Crowning) and glam rock stomps (My America). A towering achievement.
Hecklerspray gives their rundown on the top albums of 2009, including A Camp’s Colonia.
While I could quite easily favour this album because of the heavenly beauty of Nina Persson alone, that’s not really it. I loved this album from the first listen, the opening track, The Crowning, teases you in with a gentle piano intro then builds more and more layers until you’re in the middle of a deep, warm and surrounding sound. Before you know it you’re at the melancholic but uplifting conversational duet Golden Teeth and Silver Medals. This is one of the few albums I’ve come to appreciate more after experiencing live, I’m going to listen to it some more now.
Wears the Trousers Magazine published their readers poll of the top 50 albums of 2009 and A Camp’s Colonia came in at #30.
To say we waited eight long years for this follow-up to Nina Persson’s ’solo’ debut as A Camp would be telling a fib; for years she said she’d never make one! When it finally arrived, some people found Colonia disappointing, but to these ears it was every bit as strong as the self-titled. It was a little cheesy in places, admittedly, but Persson’s sweetly careworn vocals subverted that enough for us to defuse any potentially cloying moments.
Nathan Larson and Nina Persson were guest editors for Magnet magazine.
You can go here to read the article.
Coqblog gave their top 10 albums of 2009 and A Camp – Colonia came in at #3!
Check out the post here
I’ve combined all of the Nina Persson picture pages into one so that it’s easier to find them.
Digging around, I found some more pictures to add to the collection. Enjoy!
