Super Extra Gravity

Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2005 Ratings: #503 / 576
User Score
Based on 90 ratings
2005 Ratings: #396
October 14, 2005 / Release Date
LP / Format
Tore JohanssonProducer
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Critic Reviews

75
Pitchfork

Swedish group follows its underrated, melancholic Long Before Daylight by turning toward jagged country-rock.

70
PopMatters

A modest rebirth of sorts, Super Extra Gravity achieves a comfortable balance between the swagger of their late ’90s work with the more melancholy sound of recent years, proof that this veteran band is not yet past its prime.

70
Slant Magazine

Super Extra Gravity sounds like the product of a young, fresh quintet that’s got a whole lot of rock left in ‘em.

60
Rolling Stone

Their sixth studio album balances blander pop rock like "In the Round" with darker, rougher stuff and spunky little ditties such as "Little Black Cloud."

60
Mojo
40
SPIN

Canny pop internationalists make a mess of things.

40
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Codak_002
50

Marginally better than Long Gone but still not anything close to the clever invention of their first three records. Probably the most sonically boring Cardigans record, it's probably a good thing this was the last outing from them

klamonte1634
76

I think from their last album this step makes sense sonically, it's certainly more inventive and while it may not have any remnants of their early work that doesn't discount it as bad whatsoever. Persson still sounds great and with her focusing on more powerful raw vocals it creates a good amount of depth in her deliveries that perhaps wasn't always there. It's not as creative as other things they've done, but to say it's an irrelevant part of their discography is ... read more

dustymoth
60

Falls flat

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