soulRocks » The Cardigans http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live soulROCKS is a collective of music lovers, fashionistas and musicians who share and express their passion for music love via mix tapes, blogs, events and any other existing creative outlet they can get their minds on. Sat, 04 Feb 2017 14:08:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 The Cardigans http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/music/artists/the-cardigans/ http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/music/artists/the-cardigans/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:26:44 +0000 http://www.soulrocks.co.uk/live/?p=281
...read more on “The Cardigans”]]> cardigans f1 The CardigansOne of the most pleasing pop groups of the ’90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine — the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor — and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. The Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassistMagnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson — an art-school friend who had never sung professionally — plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

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