Life

Call them the Swedish Pizzicato Five, the Rentals in their own wildest dreams, or the true heirs to ABBA’s legacy: the coed Stockholm quintet Cardigans are all that and then some. With a breadth of sounds that could make Esquivel jealous, they avoid mere lounge-act camp on Life by delivering 13 catchy originals and a cover of Black Sabbath’s 1974 ”Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” that is truly divine. A