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SlowThe Cardigans

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
Slow, slow, slow
There is something you need to know
There's a feeling I don't understand
Here it comes again

Glow, glow, glow
There was love ten seconds ago
In its place now a tiny pain
It comes again

[Chorus]
There'll be rain on our wedding day
And the chapel be mud and clay
There'll be rain on our wedding day
Gray be the sky
I don't know why

[Verse 2]
Slow, slow, slow
Easy come and easy go
It seems your ring is sliding off my hand
Do you understand?

No, no, no
In every breath you're dragging me low
In every movement the chill sustains
Here it comes again

[Chorus]
There'll be rain on our wedding day
Rotting roses in my bouquet
There'll be rain on our wedding day
Gray be the sky
Too late to cry

[Outro]
Slow, slow, slow
Slow, slow, slow
Slow, slow, slow
Slow, slow, slow

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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