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Super Extra Gravity - The Cardigans
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64 out of 100

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9.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: The veteran Swedish band's sixth studio album was finally released in the U.S. in September 2006, nearly one year after it first surfaced in Europe.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Under The Radar
    80
    Rough and refined, and nearly fourteen years into their career, The Cardigans have produced one of the finest albums of the year. [#15]
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  2. Urb
    80
    It does all go a bit Sheryl Crow occasionally... but the darker clouds remain. [Oct 2006, p.117]
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  3. Mojo
    60
    An uneven and slightly uneasy listen. [Nov 2005, p.112]
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  1. DardoS
    10
    Their best album? Pretty hard to afirm that. But it's undeniable that Gravity has a bunch of amazing songs.
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  2. NathanL
    10
    A stunning return to form. I'd given up after LGBD, even though it was a fine record, it just found the band moving in a direction that I didn't want to follow, not after the string of classics that preceded it. It was an easy LP to admire, but a hard one to actually listen to. What's so amazing about SEG is how much they've retained the spirit of LGBD, but they've remembered to let Torr Johnson in on the fun this time. Once again, the Cardigans are freaking out in the studio, after the one note mopefest that was LGBD, it's really really nice to hear those bouncy swedish basslines married to staccato drumming all drenched in reverbed guitar. No one records pop music quite like the Cardigans. Sure, the caridigans are the only bad I can think of that have stripped down and simplified thier sound as they mature, and this record, however strong, is simply no match for Life or FBOTM. it seems the band is shaking off the cobwebs and finding a way to stay relevant. I'll miss the sabbath covers, sure, but, if this LP is any indication, they just again became essential.… Expand
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  3. DSBac
    10
    Not as good as Life or LGBD, but certainly far better than just about anything else around these days.
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