A Camp Colonia in top 5 albums of 2009

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.

A Camp Colonia album #3 of 2009

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.

A Camp top 10 albums of the year

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.

A Camp Colonia #30 in the best of 2009

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.

A Camp Colonia #3 on top 10 albums of 2009

Coqblog gave their top 10 albums of 2009 and A Camp – Colonia came in at #3!

Check out the post here

A Camp in top 20 albums of 2009

Safe Digression has put out their top 20 albums of the year. Coming in at #12 is A Camp’s Colonia.

They write:

Not sure if this means the end of the Cardigans, but if these lush melodies are the new vessels for Nina Persson’s sweet songs, I’ll take it.

Colonia album review 4 of 5 stars

Review of A Camp Colonia

4 out of 5 stars!

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Meet A Camp in Stockholm

A Camp will be doing a special in-store performance at Pet Sounds in
Stockholm on Thursday 29 January. The band will also be on hand to sign
copies of their new album COLONIA, which features the single ³Stronger Than
Jesus².

Pet Sounds
Instore performance and signing
Skånegatan 53, Stockholm
29 January 2009 @ 19:30pm

They will also be making two Swedish television appearances that you will
not want to miss!

Popcirkus
Wednesday 28 January 2009 @ 19:30pm on SVT
*Signing at Debaser Medis after show for members of Popcirkus audience only

Skavlan
Friday 30 January 2009 @ 21:00 on SVT
Saturday 31 January 2009 on National TV NRK (Norway)

A Camp live date in Stockholm, Copenhagen

A Camp will be playing at Tranans bar in Stockholm on the 19th of November, 2008.

Also at Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark 31 March 2009st. Tickets here.
Plus, here is the cover of the new A Camp album.