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Paste Magazine

If she has more misanthropic stuff like this up her A Camp sleeve? Hey-forget the Cardigans, and bring it on.

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Filter

This is a fine pop album; it bites as well as bops. [Spring 2009, p.96]

Prefix Magazine

That darker side of Persson gives Colonia many of its most beautiful moments and includes some of her best vocal work to date.

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Dot Music

A proper, fully formed record rather than a side-project doodle, Colonia is where artistic integrity meets pop conviction in a curious, deranged yet compelling sing-along.

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musicOMH.com

Listening to the album as a whole, it's satisfyingly compact, a neatly produced record with stand-out tracks and growers.

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Uncut

It's rich, beguiling stuff. [Mar 2009, p.78]

Slant Magazine

Colonia is what pop music might have sounded like in the era of gaslights and guillotines.

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Hartford Courant

On her second album under the name A Camp, Persson drapes herself in breezy '60s-pop arrangements, lamb's-wool duds that dress some deadly ideas.

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Spin

Beguiling, gorgeous stuff--and smartly funny, too.

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Rolling Stone

Persson sounds cute and tender, even while comparing love to a shotgun, shining some midnight sun on these dark, alluring songs.

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Pitchfork

Colonia is mostly careful to use its expanded palette of sounds for subtle shading rather than gratuitous effect.

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All Music Guide

Colonia may share with the Cardigans' late records that polished yet entirely too comfortable sound that reveals few insights, but it deftly presents Persson's uncomfortable vision of a world with little left to hold onto.

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Under The Radar

Colonia is an adequate collection of craftman-like retro pop. [Spring 2009, p.64]

Alternative Press

Despite its pristine arrangements, Colonia turns into sonic NyQuil about halfway through, and ends up a low-day--albeit impeccable-sounding-listen. [Jun 2009, p.102]

Mojo

Colonia has nothing like its predecessor's consistency of tone, but Persson strikes gold with two siren calls worthy of the last, desperate, doom-laden Abba albums. [Mar 2009, p.109]

Entertainment Weekly

Too bad her sharpest one-liners on Colonia get buried in a wash of pastoral easy listening.

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Urb

As a whole, Colonia takes on a very operatic, larger than life, almost ABBA-esque quality, which grows a bit tired as the album winds down.

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PopMatters

Colonia plays it safe by gathering together various aspects of the Cardigans/Camp catalogue and adorning them to the brim with pretty, but unsatisfying decoration.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Colonia peters out with three laments that lose their power when grouped together, and two instrumentals that waste opportunities to hear more of that wonderful voice.

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Q Magazine

THe lush '60s pop arrangements are scuppered by overly introspective lyrics. [Mar 2009, p.93]

No Ripcord

Colonia has an awful lot of ideas, but doesn’t really know what to do with them and the majority of tracks end up sounding messy and--like the rest of us following Christmas--carrying a little too much extra weight.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

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liu gave it a9:
This record is somewhat similar to the last Cardigans album to me in a sense that it was a decent step forward from the past works of the group. now it's the same with Colonia - step ahead the debut. seems Nina just can't stop mature musically. really good album.

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