The Cardigans Grand Turismo LP Mint
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You are bidding on a mint LP by The Cardigans, Grand Turismo.
Gran Turismo is the fourth studio album by Swedish band The Cardigans, released internationally on 19 October 1998 and in November 1998 in the United States. It features a darker and more moody type of music, mixing with more electronic sounds.
Gran Turismo Studio album by The Cardigans Released 19 October 1998 Recorded 1998 Genre Alternative rock, electronic rock, ambient rock Length 42:36 Label Stockholm Records Producer Tore Johansson The Cardigans chronology First Band on the Moon(1996) Gran Turismo
(1998) Long Gone Before Daylight
(2003) Singles from Gran Turismo
- "My Favourite Game"
Released: 5 October 1998 - "Erase/Rewind"
Released: 22 February 1999 - "Hanging Around"
Released: 12 July 1999
In an interview in 2009, producer and sound engineer Tore Johansson commented on the dark sound of the record, which sets it apart from the warm, jammy feel of many other recordings made at Tambourine Studios: "It's a very cold and defined recording, no natural reverb or audio curtains: there's not a sound element on that disc which wasn't deliberately put there."
The album and band were nominated for a total of seven awards at the 1999 Grammis—the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Gran Turismo sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.
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The album's name is explained by the band on an advanced copy of this CD's track number 15 Explain The Title Of The Album ' Gran Turismo': "The title can be interpreted in many ways but I think we only thought of a few ones we liked" Nina says, "we talked about having like Italian or French title and Gran Turismo came up and it sort of felt really good and you know I can think of music sometimes as tourism and traveling. So to me Gran Turismo is sort of the way to describe music sometimes or spending time with music" Peter says, "and I think that also the title suits this very album extremely well because the album is pretty much about trying to find your place in the world. I think sometimes you can always compare living to being a tourist in the world" Nina finishes.
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