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StarterThe Cardigans

Released: October 1, 1998

Songwriter: Peter Svensson Nina Persson

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
This is a start that I know I'll believe in
So I'm leaving everything behind
Keeping the parts that I know I'll be needing
And I breed to be a better kind
And I'm leaving everyone behind

This is the age when my past should be gone
But it's just stronger than the aims I have
Turning the pages I used to hang on to
I was young and I have changed my mind
And I'm leaving everything behind

[Chorus]
New beginning again a bit closer
New beginning again a little bit closer
New beginning again a bit closer to the end
A new beginning again
A little bit closer to the end

[Verse 2]
This is the time, it's a delicate line
To the beginning of what's yet to come
Lifetime of changes, a strange generation
Explanations never come in time
So I'm leaving everything behind

[Chorus]
New beginning again a bit closer
New beginning again a little bit closer
New beginning again a bit closer to the end
A new beginning again
A little bit closer to the end
A new beginning again
A little bit closer to the end

The Cardigans

One 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 bassist Magnus 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.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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