Animal Heart
Animal Heart is the debut studio album by Nina Persson, singer of The Cardigans, released on February 10, 2014 through Lojinx in Europe and The End Records 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 Metacritic, 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 AllMusic.;Musicians
- Nina Persson – vocal and instrumental performance, production
- Nathan Larson – bass guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, percussion, pump organ, synthesizer, vibraphone, background vocals, engineer, production
- Eric D. Johnson – autoharp, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, percussion, piano, pump organ, synthesizer, background vocals, engineer, production
- Brian Kantor – drums
- Bengt Lagerberg – drums
- Sophie Bille Brahe – illustration
- Kalle Gustafsson – engineer
- Annele Hencz – publicity
- Nicholas Johansson – A&R
- Fred Kevorkian – mastering
- Joe McGinty – engineer
- Thom Monahan – mixing (recorded music)|mixing]
- Staffan Persson – engineer
- Jörgen Ringstrand – photography
- Geoff Sanoff – engineer
- Barry Taylor – management
- Jessica Weitz – management
Album charts