The Swedish pop whistlers return with album number six next year.
Mostly unknown until their breakthrough smash ‘Young Folks’, the band spent some time apart in 2010 but have come together again for their next album, to be titled Gimme Some.
They told Clash that the album is a step in a new direction, and the first time they’ve worked with an outside producer.
Drummer John Eriksson said, “We had a big meeting and asked each other, ‘What can we do now after five albums?’ We have been producing our own albums, so we needed some new blood. We needed someone who can make us play differently, someone to remember to back up the hard drive".
That new someone is Swedish pop veteran and Cardigans collaborator Per Sunding.
Eriksson admits that Sunding put them on track for a more pop-sounding album following 2009’s Living Things.
He said, “We originally planned to make a punk rock album, but listening to it now it's definitely a pop rock album. But it sounds more punk rock when we play the songs live.”
Gimme Some will be released in March next year.
While you wait, have a look at our interview with multi-mational indie pop sweethearts Fanfarlo below.
