Music Review

Life (1996)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: The Cardigans; Genre: Pop

Call them the Swedish Pizzicato Five, the Rentals in their own wildest dreams, or the true heirs to ABBA's legacy: the coed Stockholm quintet Cardigans are all that and then some. With a breadth of sounds that could make Esquivel jealous, they avoid mere lounge-act camp on Life by delivering 13 catchy originals and a cover of Black Sabbath's 1974 ''Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'' that is truly divine. A

Originally posted Feb 23, 1996 Published in issue #315-316 Feb 23, 1996 Order article reprints

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