In May 2023, Nina Persson confirmed Peter Svensson would never rejoin the band, and that as a result there would be no new Cardigans albums. The idea of making new music without Svensson was overruled too. [16] The band keeps on touring sporadically. [17] Solo projects [ edit ] In 2006, Sveningsson restarted their old label Trampolene and became an A&R for it. The first signing was the Swedish popband The Animal Five, which was a minor success in Sweden and Germany. Myopic record companies who can't see the value of long‑term artist development should stop to consider the career of The Cardigans. Now on their fourth album, the band are currently Sweden's biggest music‑industry export earner, and have proved beyond doubt that the only way for a record company to transform a local act into an international one is to give it time to evolve and develop. The Cardigans' current status also, however, owes a great deal to another long‑term relationship — with producer Tore Johansson, who has produced all of the band's records since discovering them five years ago. Najlepsze single na UK Top 40–1998 wg sprzedaży" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 4 June 2015 . Retrieved 1 May 2019. The Cardigans returned in 2002 to record Long Gone Before Daylight (2003), a collection of songs mainly written by Persson and Svensson. Long Gone Before Daylight became one of the best selling albums in Sweden in 2003. [ citation needed] After a two-year hiatus from their last album, it was released in Japan on 19 March 2003 and in Europe on 24 March 2003. Later it was also released in Canada (22 April 2003) and the United States (25 May 2004).

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Hits Of The World - Gran Turismo - Italy". Billboard. Vol.111, no.16. 17 April 1999. p.62. ISSN 0006-2510. It is a shame the band have not recorded another album since 2005; Nina Persson recorded a solo album, Animal Heart, in 2014, but there has been very little from her since then. I will move on soon but, before then, I want to bring in a final article that gives some to Gran Turismo. In this feature, Albumism dug deep:Holdship, Bill (8 November 1998). "The Cardigans, 'Gran Turismo,' Mercury". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved 5 April 2018. Danger Mouse on Mark Linkous and Dark Night of the Soul | Music". theguardian.com. 7 July 2010 . Retrieved 25 April 2014.

Wyatt, Malcolm (23 November 2018). "The Cardigans: from indie roots to Gran Turismo and beyond – the Nina Persson interview". writewyattuk.com . Retrieved 5 December 2018.Offiziellecharts.de – The Cardigans – Gran Turismo" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 7 June 2017. ariaNET The Chart! Top 100 Singles – Week Commencing 22nd March 1999". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA) . Retrieved 17 October 2016. Tore Johansson started his career as a musician. He says, "I began by writing songs and playing guitar and bass in different bands from pop to funk. I wanted to learn how a studio worked so that I could record my own material. I'm still trying to work with my own material, but all this producing other acts comes in between!"

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Amelia McDonell-Parry. "Long Gone Before Daylight: The Cardigans: Review", Rolling Stone, 24 July 2004.