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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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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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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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UncutIt's rich, beguiling stuff. [Mar 2009, p.78]
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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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FilterThis is a fine pop album; it bites as well as bops. [Spring 2009, p.96]
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Beguiling, gorgeous stuff--and smartly funny, too.
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Colonia is what pop music might have sounded like in the era of gaslights and guillotines.
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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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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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Colonia is mostly careful to use its expanded palette of sounds for subtle shading rather than gratuitous effect.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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liuApr 29, 2009