Pitchfork

After a break of nearly five years, Swedish pop-rockers The Cardigans are finally returning with their fifth full-length album, Long Gone Before Daylight. The group promises their latest effort, which is seeing release today in England on Stockholm/Polydor Records, will turn down the electronics and turn up the rock since it was recorded with a "live in the studio" feel, and since they used less keyboards and more Swedish garage-rock guest stars. Guests musicians include The Hives' Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Ebbot Lundberg from The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and Nick Royale from Hellacopters.

"We've decided to give it a shot, one more time and think we are not too old to rock 'n' roll," the group writes on its official website. "After a long pause allowing the band members to rest and work on solo projects [Nina Persson's A Camp, Magnus Sveningsson's Righteous Boy, and Peter Svensson's and Titiyo's Come Along], the Cardigans are back!" Okay, Okay, we got it. The band has been documenting the processing with a recording diary on their official site, but rather than wade through that drivel, suffice it to say that the album was recorded in studios all over the old country with producer Tore Johansson, and their friend Per Sunding acting as the overall producer for the finished product.

The Cardigans also have plans for a world tour in the Fall of 2003, though no dates have been announced as yet. The album's first single, "For What It's Worth", was released on March 10th in the UK. Tracklist:

01 Communication
02 You're the Storm
03 Good Horse
04 And Then You Kissed Me
05 Couldn't Care Less
06 Please Sister
07 For What It's Worth
08 Lead Me into the Night
09 Live & Learn
10 Feathers & Down
11 No Sleep