This is some of the best news to come in a long time. Dagens Nyheter is reporting that the Cardigans are getting back together to play at the Hultsfred Festival next summer!
The band will be playing the Gran Turismo album and will be without guitarist Peter Svensson who cannot attend due to family reasons.
The Cardigans had a career before and after “Lovefool”, but for many they will be forever known for this song’s association with the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman’s wildly tacky update of Romeo and Juliet. It’s a happy accident, then, that “Lovefool” happens to be one of their best. The Cardigans took lounge-pop and paired it with disturbingly sour sentiments– and that was mostly it. It was a chemistry experiment that succeeded about half the time, and on “Lovefool”, everything came together. The song’s tone never settles, dipping and wavering between major and minor keys almost every four bars. Even the sunny explosion of the chorus hits a chilly last note. It’s an ideal musical expression of Nina Persson’s probing, uncertain lyrics, which chart a queasy line between abject pleading and manipulation. –Jayson Greene
See this ultra rare and great picture of the Cardigans playing squash. Taken by fashion photographer PEROU, Limited edition photographic print of ‘The Cardigans playing squash’ by acclaimed fashion & music photographer PEROU (www.perou.co.uk). The print is signed and stamped by the photographer and is an edition 1 of 10, so very special! The finished print is mounted and framed in a contemporary mid-tone wood and the overall size of the framed picture is 47cm x 53cm (18 ½” x 20 ¾”).
Here’s the link to the auction in case you’re interested.
Similar to this post with The World According to download, here is the other ULTRA RARE Cardigans EP “In Pursuit of Pooh”. This is from 1992! This will hopefully get all the rip off bootleggers from selling this for $200.
Please make sure and buy the Cardigans albums if you enjoy this download.
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!
