The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
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Artist: The CardigansEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Music Label: Nettwerk Records
Soundtracks:
- Losing a Friend
- Godspell
- Drip Drop Teardrop
- Overload
- I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer
- Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)
- Little Black Cloud
- In the Round
- Holy Love
- Good Morning Joan
- And Then You Kissed Me II
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Free Music Review: feminism unbound
Hit: 5 Stars
It's funny, but nobody ever talks about the brilliant lyrics that Nina Persson writes, and "Super Extra Gravity" is no exception. In every song, Persson crafts a kind of persona, a character that she either complicates from within or derides or sympathizes with from without, sometimes both. But you can see from songs like "Don't Blame Your Daughter" or "Good Morning Joan" that she has this keen psychological view of the experiences women go through: from their objectification as store goods to their idealization as keepers of the divine to their abasement as dogs or slaves. Persson takes these positions and turns them around, as one would a prism or sphere of the world in miniature, holding up certain facets to the light and casting the others in darkness. In arguing for the hope in despair and the desperation in success, she turns phrases in ordinary conversation into moments of ironic revelation, regret, longing, or empathy. Someone should write a book about her as a poet -- it's so under the radar, maybe because the music is also so good and maybe because she's pretty. But the complex emotions she is able to capture with her lyrics alone make this band the best kept secret in pop music, anywhere. Songs like "Little Black Cloud" paint in broad strokes a scene, an atmosphere, a character, and a feeling that everyone who has felt true joy will identify immediately ("I look pretty great tonight, oh yeah! Little black cloud / I don't want to go home / I'm not done yet").
I listen to a lot of music, but don't know a lot of songwriters who can evoke the same range, at least not today. Cheers to an ethereal talent and the amazing musicianship that surrounds her.
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International pressing. 'Super Extra Gravity' was produced by Tore Johansson who worked with Franz Ferdinand & previously with The Cardigans on 'Gran Turismo'. Aside from the single 'I Need Some Fine Wine...', other highlights include the sparse album opener 'Losing A Friend', 'In The Round', 'Good Morning Joan' featuring a wall of guitars and the sad and beautiful 'Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)'. Every listen of the new record reveals another gem - The Cardigans have succeeded in their aim: to make a beautifully deranged album that never ceases to surprise the listener. 11 tracks in all. Universal. 2005.Sweden's the Cardigans broke big in America in 1996 with First Band on the Moon and the hit "Lovefool." A slippery, slick pop tune, the song was also unmistakably twisted, as vocalist Nina Persson described a desperate, submissive affair in honey-flecked tones and happy-day hooks. The dichotomy was a neat little joke that went right over a lot of merrily nodding heads. A decade later on Super Extra Gravity, the band still likes to play with expectations of what a pop band is supposed to be. But while the melodic camouflage for Persson's dour lyrics once made for an effective disguise, Gravity struggles to maintain the illusion. The music here is self-consciously ambitious, constantly reshuffling and losing its momentum, leaving Persson in charge of connecting each song's too-disparate parts. It's a task for which her Chrissie-Hynde-meets-Harriet-Wheeler voice is not well-suited. "Drip Drop Teardrop," for instance, needs either a belter to accentuate the song's jagged edges or a chanteuse to smooth it out, and Persson can do neither. There are pieces of songs that still rope us in. The chorus of "Little Black Cloud," for instance, generates an exuberant energy that matches Persson's tale of a girl spinning and dancing her way toward a vaguely sinister conclusion, while "In the Round" mines an appealingly sparse and slow guitar drawl. However, the pieces don't add up to a convincing whole, and while this album is never quite boring, Gravity tries a bit too hard and ends up an interesting misfire. --Matthew Cooke
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