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On Super Extra Gravity Sweden's finest set out to make something "twisted and spectacular". They achieve this - the bible-trashing "Godspell" sounds like Sheryl Crow riding the fairground ghost train while "Losing A Friend" takes the tenderness of the third Velvet Underground album and adds clumping drums and a torturous electric-shock guitar solo worthy of Jonny Greenwood - without losing sight of a winning pop melody. And what of the extraordinary "I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer"? Has it anything to do with dog-training, booze and master / servant sexuality ? Eye-brow raising curiosities abound but Super Extra Gravity is a winning combination of the strange and beautiful. --Kevin Maidment
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But dysfunctional relationships are a common theme, with old song "And Then You Kissed Me" gaining a sequel here. There are no great departures instrumentally and The Cardigans continue their evolution into a serious, spacious indie group with polished songs.
It seems that the ironic, chatty Cardigans of Emmerdale are gone forever, but they're still sounding damn fine. --Lucy Davies
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A quick run through of the tracks. Losing a Friend - a great opener, sparse but builds magnificently. Godspell - probably the worst track on the album, sounds like its from an earlier one. Drip Drop Teardrop - probably the one that is most memorable on first listen. Overload - the cutest track on the album in 3/4 and not distorted. I Need Some Fine Wine etc - the single which was criminally underplayed on the radio. Don't Blame Your Daughter - awesome. Little Black Cloud - one of the weaker tracks but great lyrics. In the Round - excellent bass line. Could have been a single. Holy Love - epic. Good Morning Joan - another one of the weaker tracks but still a fine tune. And Then You Kissed Me II - what a fantastic end to the album. Nina sings it like she is in emotional agony.
Nina's usually sugary voice can grate on other albums but due to different processing it stays great til the end on this one and she shows that she really is a fine singer. (Why isn't she ever in the top 100 babes by the way?).
So if you like the Cardigans buy it. Be surprised initially but ultimately delighted by your purchase.
2. Godspell. "I've heard about a great big swindle" sings Nina at the start. It's sounds like an "anti-hymn", in the same vein as Live & Learn, great song! 10/10
3. Drip Drop Teardrop - "I'm gonna sing until you hate this song" - Nina you'll be singing a very long time then. This song has an almost "marching quality" to it with Nina knowing what she wants and taking command. 8/10
4. Overload. The first part I thought they were going to burst into ABBA's Thankyou For The Music. This song has a nice haunting waltz feel to it. Bengt mentions on the dvd that Torre asks him to pretend to be a 50's drummer, I think this was the song it was for! One of the slower songs on the album, one of my personal favourites to. "The band must continue to play" never has a truer word been spoken. 9/10
5. I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer. Great opening with the guitar, then Nina's commands grip the listener. A song about a relationship that isn't the healthiest to say the least. "baby you're foul in clear conditions but you're handsome in the fog". Lyrically it's a great song that presents snippets of when a relationships don't work. Musically, it plain rocks. 10/10
6. Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds). This song reminds me of Communication. A song about taking responsibility for your own actions. One of the slower songs on the albums with a great wall of sound on the chorus. 8/10
7. Little Black Cloud. Nice mid-album song. Musically it actually reminds me of something of Radiohead's Pablo Honey. 7/10
8. In The Round - Nice little song. Almost a nursery rhyme for the Cardigans fan! 7/10
9. Holy Love. No intro just straight into the song. The instrumentation on this song is fantastic, so much in there but it all fits there. A song celebrating a love that someone wants to shout from the rooftops. 9/10
10. Good Morning Joan - one of the more simpler sounding pop songs on Super Extra Gravity that you'd easily hear on the radio and hum along to. Nina's vocals sound reassuring to the listener 8/10
11.And Then You Kissed Me II. A reviting sequel to And Then You Kissed Me from Long Gone Before Daylight, I can see the similarities musically, but this song jars on you with the instrumentation to drag you into it and lyrically its one of Nina's finest. "Nervewreckingacrobaticbacwardsband" I believe was the original title for the album. As an end to the version with no bonus tracks Nina's disturbing singing of "happy end" on the last note makes you want more. 10/10
12. Bonus Tracks - Joyous
13. Give Me Your Eyes. Reminds me in some ways of Hanging Around but is more raw sounding than that. Along with I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer are the two songs that get your foot taping straight away. 8/10
14. Slow. Another song that pulls you into it. It makes you feel uncomfortable yet comfortable at the same time with the lyric content jarring you yet the song is so well produced it makes you listen to it even more intently!!! 7/10
On first listen as with the other Cardigans albums I wasn't sure but with each listen, as with Long Gone Before Daylight etc etc each song pulls you into it and you hear something new or gain a greater understanding of it. Elements from all the previous Cardigans albums are here which instantly tells you it's a Cardigans CD, but there's something new here to, a band that just continues to grow with their writing, music and playing.
Super Extra Gravity is a great album. Read more
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