ABOUT SUPER EXTRA GRAVITY

/ 01 / LOSING A FRIEND 3:49
/ 02 / GODSPELL 3:29
/ 03 / DRIP DROP TEARDROP 3:22
/ 04 / OVERLOAD 3:18
/ 05 / I NEED SOME FINE WINE AND YOU,
          YOU NEED TO BE NICER 3:33
/ 06 / DON'T BLAME YOUR DAUGHTER [DIAMONDS] 3:36
/ 07 / LITTLE BLACK CLOUD 3:26
/ 08 / IN THE ROUND 4:16
/ 09 / HOLY LOVE 4:07
/ 10 / GOOD MORNING JOAN 3:36
/ 11 / AND THEN YOU KISSED ME II 3:57

/ All / Music by Peter Svensson [Copyright Control] // 01 / 03 / 07 / Lyrics by Nina Persson [Copyright Control] // 02 / 04 / 05 / 06 / 08 / 09 / 10 / 11 / Lyrics by Nina Persson & Nathan Larson. [Copyright Control / EMI Music Publishing France].
2005 Universal Music AB

Produced and mixed by Tore Johansson. Engineered by David Carlsson, Jens Lindgård and Marco Manieri. Additional engineering by Nathan Larson. Recorded and mixed at Gula Studion, Malmö. Additional mixing at the Bubble. Strings on / 06 / by Filip Runesson. String arrangement by Martin Gjerstad. Mastered by George Marino, Sterling Sound, N.Y.C.

Released October 14, 2005 in Scandinavia. Local Universal Music branches then made it available worldwide during autumn 2005 / spring 2006. Released in the USA on September 19, 2006 by Nettwerk America. Check your local record store. UK editions include the bonus tracks "Give Me Your Eyes" and "Slow", France and Japan editions include the bonus track "Slowdown Town". A limited edition including different artwork and a bonus DVD was also issued.

Explore the Limited Edition.
Read the Lyrics.



WORDS FROM THE BAND

- The last record is fantastic, but a lot of other people could have made it just as well. Now we've done something that is more us. [Nina, Sonic Magazine #24, September]

- It's always easy to compare with your latest work and in comparison to our last album Long Gone Before Daylight it's a little ... it's not quite as sad as that one. If that one was sad this one is kinda whiny, and angry. Or, not angry but more grumpy. [Nina, StudioPop SVT, 18 May]

- At first we thought Super Extra Gravity was going to sound pretty similar [to LGBD], but that all changed when we brought Tore Johannson back in. His idea was to take us out of our comfort zone. We wanted to make a riskier record where every song had something a bit twisted or spectacular. [Peter, The Independent 21 October]

- We've had a kind of a leading star during the recording process and it has been that the album should be strange and good. [Nina, StudioPop SVT, 18 May]

- On the new album we haven't re-done anything at all, it's just straight up as it is. Besides, we had a strict working schedule with twelve days in the studio followed by eight days off and the album was done after six months. We let go of our heads making this album and just went for it, kamikaze-recording. [Nina, Svenska Dagbladet, 14 October]

Read all the comments from the band.



PRESS REVIEWS

- Where The Cardigans sounded warm, mature and Country-tinged two years ago, they now make a rock record filled with spikes. Not hard, but sharp. [Dagens Nyheter]

- Less feigned, rockier, warmer, Nina Persson's voice from now on lives within the songs, pushes them to the edge, carrying Super Extra Gravity very far, to where the laws of gravity don't apply anymore. [Les Inrockuptibles]

- These days it seems like every new band is Swedish. But my original Scandinavian love, armed with a newly raw aesthetic, has finally approached the beauty of that long-ago MTV first sight. [Pitchfork Media]

- While not quite as beautifully forlorn as 2003's Long Gone Before Daylight, this latest offering still drapes Velvet Underground melodies around the stooped shoulders of singer Nina Persson, a doleful siren who does sadness with breathtaking conviction. [Q Magazine]

Read a selection of reviews.



I NEED SOME FINE WINE AND YOU, YOU NEED TO BE NICER

CD SINGLE AND MAXISINGLE.
UK ENHANCED MAXISINGLE AND 7" VINYL SINGLE.

The first single taken from "Super Extra Gravity". Released in Scandinavia on September 21, Canada on September 26 and across Europe on October 3 and 7, 2005. Includes the b-side "For the Boys" as well as "Explode" & "My Favourite Game" - recorded live at the Kiev Sporthall, December 2003. Video directed by Martin Renck and Jakob Ström.




DON'T BLAME YOUR DAUGHTER [DIAMONDS]

CD SINGLE AND MAXISINGLE.

The second single taken from "Super Extra Gravity". Released in Scandinavia on February 15, 2006. Includes the b-side "(If You Were) Less Like Me" as well as "Hanging Around" and "Higher" - recorded live at the Kiev Sporthall, December 2003. Video directed by Johan Renck and Martin Renck.




ARTWORK AND PHOTOS

Art direction and design by Martin Renck, NEW.
Photography by Ola Bergengren, LundLund.

Watch photo slideshow 1.
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SITE CREDITS

Artwork still photography by Ola Bergengren, LundLund. Desktop photographs by Ola Bergengren and Mattias Edwall. Bonus DVD photography by Hampus Linder, Annika Jansson, Christian Svensson. Bonus DVD editing by Hampus Linder, Jens Jansson. Produced and directed by Jens Jansson. Still photography of the band in the studio by Magnus Sveningsson and The Cardigans.