The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight [2003][FLAC]

Long Gone Before Daylight marks a shift in theme for the Cardigans. Their last album, 1998's Gran Turismo, was a masterpiece. With Peter Svensson's quirky, driving, ultra-modern pop backing Nina Persson's icy dissections of doomed relationships, it was a Love Album informed more by Bret Easton Ellis than any high romance. So catchy, so cool, and so incredibly bleak--exceptional, intelligent pop in the tradition of Soft Cell and ABC. Long Gone Before Daylight, then, comes as something of a shock when the opening "Communication" and "You're the Storm"--both lush and beautiful pop--find Persson struggling for love then, come the Doors-like "And Then You Kissed Me," actually finding it. Real love, too--not the fascinatingly twisted variety of before. It's a terrible shame, for love reduces the Cardigans to the level of other musicians. But then, unpredictable devils, they hit you with "Couldn't Care Less," as Persson loses it all again, in the following "Please Sister" begging for advice, succor, anything. And now you realize; it's a pop-rock opera, the tale of one heart's tortuous and tortured journey through the mill. And it's superb. Persson, the finest pop lyricist working today, is on peak form while the band's back-to-roots grand piano and grander acoustic guitars provide an appropriately magnificent backing.







The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight



1. Communication

2. You're The storm

3. A Good Horse

4. And Then You Kissed Me

5. Couldn't Care Less

6. Please Sister

7. For What It's Worth

8. Lead Me Into The Night

9. Live and Learn

10. Feathers And Down

11. 03.45: No Sleep



There are different versions of this album. I am uploading the shortest one, the only available in Poland. I a am attaching the screenshot of the back of the cover (with the labels of authenticity, the hologram is in the fron cover :-)). There are versions which containt one or three extra tracks, unfortunately not available in my country.





Enjoy!