''Animal Heart'' is the debut studio album by

Nina Persson Nina Elisabet Persson (; born 6 September 1974) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock band The Cardigans. She also has worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A Camp and one under her own name, and has appeared as a guest ...

, singer of

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, released on February 10, 2014 through

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in Europe and

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in North America. A video for the title track of the album was released in November 2013.

Critical reception

Critical reception of the album has been generally positive. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from

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. ;Musicians *

– vocal and instrumental performance, production * Nathan Larson – bass guitar, electric guitar,

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of pla ...

, percussion,

pump organ The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ that uses free reed aerophone, free reeds to generate sound, with air passing over vibrating thin metal strips mounted in a frame. Types include the pressure-based harmonium, the suction reed organ ...

, synthesizer,

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

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, production * Eric D. Johnson –

autoharp An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. The term ''autoharp'' was once a trademark of t ...

, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, percussion, piano, pump organ, synthesizer, background vocals, engineer, production * Brian Kantor – drums (1 to 5, 7 to 9, 11, 12) *

Bengt Lagerberg The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jönköping, Sweden in 1992. The main lineup of the band consisted of guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead sing ...

– drums (6, 10) ;Technical personnel * Sophie Bille Brahe –

illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vi ...

* Kalle Gustafsson – engineer * Annele Hencz – publicity * Nicholas Johansson – A&R * Fred Kevorkian – mastering * Joe McGinty – engineer * Thom Monahan – mixing * Staffan Persson – engineer * Jörgen Ringstrand – photography * Geoff Sanoff – engineer * Barry Taylor –

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

* Jessica Weitz – management

Album charts

Release history

References

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