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[It is] over-produced to within an inch of its artistic life, and lacks the quality songs and exquisite productions that the group had made a hallmark.
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Persson, the finest pop lyricist working today, is on peak form while the band's back-to-roots grand piano and grander acoustic guitars provide an appropriately magnificent backing.
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Persson does sadness the way Eminem does anger: with a conviction that takes the breath away.
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Frequently, it sounds like the band have spent most of that time labouring to make their fifth album as monumental as possible. Where once they swung, however ironically, now they plod. Slowly. Ponderously. In expensive lead boots.
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Music is supposed to be a form of entertainment, but Long Gone Before Daylight feels like a collection of aimless lullabies.
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Entertainment WeeklyPersson's tender voice, coupled with the Cardigans' welcome desire to explore new musical territory, allows this once-fizzy group to pull off a sultry coup. [28 May 2004, p.124]
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MojoDeep, mournful, impressive. [Apr 2004, p.99]
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The band's best album yet - which is to say that it contains considerably more than three good songs.
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Their slickest and most formulaic pop constructions to date.
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PlanetThe new Cardigans still write great pop songs, except now the music resonates with substance and meaning. [#7, p.72]
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Q MagazineAlthough this is certainly flawed, the Cardigans deserve kudos for recognising their faults, trying with all their might to rectify them. [Apr 2003, p.103]
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Rolling StoneDaylight's rich, delicate instrumental work demands attention. [24 Jun 2004, p.174]
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A sensitive, fully mature contribution to the pop music lexicon, it proves that, like the rare child actor who actually works well into adulthood, The Cardigans have weathered a difficult transition.
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Fans who enjoyed The Cardigans' evolution toward the challenging art-disco of Gran Turismo will likely be disappointed by Daylight, which at least superficially sounds like the kind of easygoing roots-lite better associated with Sheryl Crow or Bonnie Raitt.
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The electronics of Gran Turismo has been supplanted by an organic sound with countryish overtones (see Live and Learn) that suits Persson's melancholy lyrics.
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The songs all sound pretty much the same; this could be Avril Lavigne, Sheryl Crow; hell, it could be Christian Contemporary.
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UncutThis is the sound of dashboard-tapping, local radio MOR. [Apr 2004, p.108]
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JeebsVJan 11, 2007A more mature yet great cardigans album
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MarkCOct 27, 2005