Their second long-player, 'Life,' which followed in 1995, featured the hit singles "Carnival" and the re-recorded "Rise & Shine," and witnessed the band's first international chart success. The rise of The Cardigans has since been gradual, allowing them the time to develop naturally as their sales and positive exposure grew with each release.
The same year the band made their debut for the label with 'Emmerdale' and later won the accolade of Best Album of 1994 from Slitz, at the time Sweden's leading music magazine. With Peter writing most of the music and the band as a whole composing the lyrics, the quintet set out to find a deal.Īfter an early recording of "Rise & Shine" appeared on a local independent label in 1994, The Cardigans were swiftly signed to Stockholm Records. As their hometown was hardly a Mecca of musical enterprise, the group packed up and moved to the somewhat more central fishing port of Malmo, Sweden's third largest city, to seek their fortune. In October 1992, bonded by their mutual love of hard rock music, guitarist Peter Svensson and bassist Magnus Sveningsson conceived The Cardigans. The Cardigans are a five-piece who met as teenagers in Jönköping, a small Swedish town in which the only distinguishing feature is its fifty-two churches. Lasse Johansson - keyboard, acoustic guitar The Cardigans will re-issue their entire back catalogue on vinyl, some for the first time ever, in 2019.
The band's music has prominently featured on a number of film soundtracks including 'A Life Less Ordinary,' 'The X Files' and perhaps most prominently on 'Romeo + Juliet,' which featured ground-breaking international hit "Love Fool." Taking a hiatus after their 2006 tour, the band reunited in 2012 to play several concerts and continue to perform to dedicated audiences across the globe. With six critically acclaimed studio albums to their name, the band have sold over 15 million albums worldwide to date and scoring multiple hit singles and award nominations in the process. First Band On The Moon has been remastered at Sterling Sound studios in New York and will be pressed on gatefold 180g gram vinyl.įormed in the small village of Jönköping, Sweden, in 1992, The Cardigans are a Swedish pop rock band who met as teenagers and would go on to find world-wide success. Today, On February 1st, 2019, the celebrated Swedish quintet, The Cardigans, will be issuing First Band On The Moon, which features the International hit single, “Lovefool.” The album was a major breakthrough for the band, both in their native Sweden and internationally and it was their best-selling album in the United States.
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