So you remember the Cardigans, right? Those sugary Swedes who absolutely lit up the mid-nineties pop charts with their impossibly catchy single “Lovefool.” Well, soon after said international blowup, the band’s bombshell lead singer Nina Persson teamed up with the late, great Mark Linkous to form a countrified chamber pop outfit named A Camp. Combining Persson’s crystal clear vocals, Linkous’ gorgeously filled out arrangements, and the pair’s shared devotion to the desperately wistful, the group’s 2001 self-titled debut is fourteen tracks of breathtaking—if heartbreaking—pop, with the highlight being the irresistibly lovelorn “I Can Buy You.” Ronald Miller, eat your heart out.
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Everything Linkous had a hand in instantly became heartbreakingly beautiful. I still need to pick up his collaborations with Fennesz and Danger Mouse.