There is unmet demand for the Cardigans to tour America again. The underrated Swedish pop-rock greats haven’t toured this country in 19 years, playing only one stateside show since 2006, and their biggest (but not even best) song “Lovefool” went viral on TikTok a few years ago. That sole US show was at the 2023 goth/new wave nostalgia fest Darker Waves in Huntington Beach, CA. I was there and they sounded incredible. The crowd should’ve been bigger, but their set overlapped entirely with Devo’s.
