Colonia

...growing ever since and their roster now includes the likes of Kris Drever, Lau and Jon Redfern. Earlier this year, the label released 'Colonia', the second album by A Camp, the alias of Cardigans singer Nina Perrson. Rose has also set up a...

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...cologne. Like how some people see colors when they hear music. All of our fantasies would somehow, in our mind, be summed up in the word Colonia." The recording of a second A Camp album was officially confirmed by Persson in an interview...

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...Loney Dear also visit. Nina Persson's Cardigans side-project A Camp made the baroque New York alt.rock experiments of this year's Colonia, inspired by a South African safari. The Knife's male half, Olof Dreijer, was last seen making field...

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...also features Persson's husband Nathan Larson and Niclas Frisk of Atomic Swing -- just released a SPIN-approved sophomore album, Colonia, and kicked off an extensive U.S. tour. Now, the mellow indie-pop trio is set to release some new...

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Camp's Colonia opens with the deceptively regal "The Crowning," in which swine and boars are slaughtered-and virgins deflowered-in honor of some brute's "big head." Lyrics like "Let's raise our glasses/To murderous asses like you" point to...

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...seemingly chased ever since. Unfortunately, other than a single slide guitar contribution, Mark Linkous is uninvolved with Colonia, the second Camp album. His signature is sorely missed. A Camp's self-titled debut benefited from...

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...Are Many Wild Animals'' may be the best girl-group romp ever written about eating one's young. Too bad her sharpest one-liners on Colonia get buried in a wash of pastoral easy listening. What's left is a biting meditation on empire,...

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...Lewis will find much to love here, with a similar commitment to intelligently dark lyricism as a counterpoint to the sweet music. Such calm loveliness means you do need to concentrate hard to get the most out of Colonia but it's worth it.

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...to the foreground. This is a very Scandinavian trait, of course, and without wishing to make too obvious a comparison, the mood of 'Colonia' is highly reminiscent of late-period-Abba. Take, for example, the muted alienation of the line "My...

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New album from Nine Persson and co is out in April A Camp have announced details of their second album 'Colonia', which is scheduled to be released in April. The record is the follow-up to the band's 2001 self-titled debut and is the...

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