The Cardigans

The Cardigans' embrace of bubblegum-pop values has always made room for a touch of
perversion – and not just because they played lounge versions of Black Sabbath songs on
their last two albums. In mining Sixties kitsch for its melodic potential on those earlier
albums, the Cardigans were so happy it hurt; their puppy-love travails always had a hint of
masochism running beneath them. On Gran Turismo, they give the irony an even... More >

With a hit on their résumé, they're free to be the depressed Swedes they always were ("Paralyzed," "Do You Believe").