Gran Turismo

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Tore admits that the new method of working gave him one or two near heart failures. "I wasn't used to working with computers, and one morning, halfway through the recording, I couldn't find the music. Finally I found it hidden on a hard disk, but it was a couple of scary hours!" Games & Pastimes She remains a fabulous frontperson and if she’s disappointed by the closed balcony and the hall’s empty spaces, it doesn’t show. “Look at you, Manchester!” she yells. With guitarist Oskar Humlebo ably replacing Peter Svensson (who declined the reunion) and the sound ever improving, the country-tinged Junk of the Hearts doesn’t sound out of place in today’s world of Taylor Swift et al. Both the drum and guitar parts were recorded in a "'70s-style dry room" [3] while the vocals were recorded in the attic of the studio. [5]

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Myopic record companies who can't see the value of long‑term artist development should stop to consider the career of The Cardigans. Now on their fourth album, the band are currently Sweden's biggest music‑industry export earner, and have proved beyond doubt that the only way for a record company to transform a local act into an international one is to give it time to evolve and develop. The Cardigans' current status also, however, owes a great deal to another long‑term relationship — with producer Tore Johansson, who has produced all of the band's records since discovering them five years ago. In June 2018, the band announced their only live shows of the year: a four-date UK tour in December to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Gran Turismo in which they would perform the album in full again. [14] In an interview to promote the tour, Persson stated, "There won’t be any more Cardigans records, I’m pretty sure. But we’ll keep doing little tours and shows as long as it’s fun, as long as we can do it well and feel that it’s something that’s current to us." [15] Top Albums/CDs - Volume 68, No. 9: Nov 23, 1998". RPM. RPM Library and Archives. 23 November 1998 . Retrieved 8 June 2017.

a b c d Lofthus, Kai R. (3 October 1998). "Mercury Fosters 'Gran' Int'l Plans for Cardigans Album". Billboard. Vol.110, no.40. p.17. Japanese album certifications – カーディガンズ – グラン・トゥーリスモ" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 1998年11月 on the drop-down menu Danger Mouse on Mark Linkous and Dark Night of the Soul | Music". theguardian.com. 7 July 2010 . Retrieved 25 April 2014. Offiziellecharts.de – The Cardigans – Gran Turismo" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 7 June 2017.Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011 . Retrieved 11 February 2019. IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 1999". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 2 February 2020. Listinn (29.10–29.10. 1998)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 30 October 1998. p.15 . Retrieved 4 October 2019. Our delicious waiting is made even more appetizing by the Cardigans "new" release, Gran Turismo. The sounds I hear disturb me, though. Where the Cardigans seemed so on top of their game on Last Band, Gran Turismo gives me a Nina that seems to have grown morose from her waiting. The light, sharply- arranged and smilingly ironic attitude that saturated their previous effort has metamorphosed into a self- concerned dragging effort devoid of the featherweight happiness that the Cardigans have been notable for.

The first three Cardigans albums were recorded at Tore Johansson's Tambourine Studios in Malmö, Sweden (see the 'Malmö Swede Preachers' box). Recently, however, Johansson has developed a second studio, the eccentrically named Country Hell, in a large house in Skurup, about half an hour outside Malmö, and it was here that 'My Favourite Game' and the rest of Gran Turismo were recorded. During the band's first break Nina Persson released an album as A Camp, and Peter Svensson and Bengt Lagerberg worked on the project Paus with help from Joakim Berg from Kent, and Magnus Sveningsson recorded as Righteous Boy. Hits Of The World - Gran Turismo - Japan". Billboard. Vol.110, no.43. 28 October 1998. p.60. ISSN 0006-2510. In the band's break of 2007, Persson recorded the second A Camp album Colonia, [20] which was released in early 2009. A Camp supported the US release of Colonia with a tour, which began in New York City on 26 May and completed on 15 June in Los Angeles. [21] [22]

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Long, April (16 October 1998). "The Cardigans – Gran Turismo". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000 . Retrieved 23 April 2018. Tore Johansson started his career as a musician. He says, "I began by writing songs and playing guitar and bass in different bands from pop to funk. I wanted to learn how a studio worked so that I could record my own material. I'm still trying to work with my own material, but all this producing other acts comes in between!" Suddenly, by 1997, The Cardigans’ global profile had been raised high for all to see. What they hadn’t counted on was that some listeners—and some critics—wouldn’t grasp the ironic humor The Cardigans had sewn into their material. As such, some fans and pundits mistook their usage of vintage pop for kitsch. This provided portions of the music press an out to dismiss the group’s first three efforts as pleasant, but ultimately disposable. Now the serious Pro Tools work began, as Tore recounts. "After recording the drums, we immediately started recording the guitars dry to Pro Tools so that we could choose our amps later. This was where Amp Farm [ Line 6's Pro Tools guitar amp emulation plug‑in] came in useful. We didn't use Amp Farm on the hook guitar line, though — it's heavily compressed and extremely EQ'd, with a band‑pass filter a little below 1kHz. We also looped it to get that repetitive feeling. The sound just comes from the analogue compressors and EQs distorting, not Amp Farm."

Kot, Greg (29 October 1998). "The Cardigans: Gran Turismo". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007 . Retrieved 5 April 2018. Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.15, no.46. 14 November 1998. p.12 . Retrieved 30 July 2020. The Irish Charts – Search Results – My Favourite Game". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 18 April 2018. Gran Turismo is the fourth studio album by Swedish band the Cardigans, released internationally on 19 October 1998 and in November 1998 in the United States. It features a darker and more moody type of music, mixed with more electronic sounds. Simpson, Dave (4 December 2018). "The Cardigans review – at their best when playing the lovefool". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 December 2018.a b "Hits Of The World - Gran Turismo - Eurochart & Ireland". Billboard. Vol.111, no.12. 20 March 1999. p.57. ISSN 0006-2510.