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These Things Take Time

Her self-released debut: thirteen songs made on a roommate's keyboard with vocals recorded on a laptop.
Molly Nilsson, 2008

These Things Take Time was recorded in 2007 and 2008 and released on September 13, 2008, burned onto hand-numbered CD-Rs by Nilsson herself (100 copies, by Wikipedia's text; the lead of her artist page says 500). She wrote all the songs and produced the record, on her roommate's keyboard with vocals recorded on a laptop, writing over about a year from ideas collected across her life. It runs 50:04 over thirteen tracks. It was reissued for Record Store Day in 2018 and on CD and vinyl on October 30, 2021. Nilsson has said: I want to make this love affair I have with music last a long time. Ed Blair of Bandcamp Daily called it, in 2022, a remarkably assured arrival.

Track listing

  1. The Lonely3:38
  2. The Diamond Song4:09
  3. 8000 Days3:26
  4. Wounds Itch When They Heal2:16
  5. Whiskey Sour4:30
  6. Poisoned Candy3:54
  7. (Won't Somebody) Take Me Out Tonight4:44
  8. Hey Moon!5:24
  9. The Home Song4:02
  10. Joyride4:46
  11. We're Never Coming Home3:49
  12. Dinosaur Tears4:02
  13. My Dream from Last Night1:34

More from Molly Nilsson

Europa (2009), Follow The Light (2010), History (2011), The Travels (2013), Zenith (2015), Imaginations (2017), Twenty-Twenty (2018), Extreme (2022), Un-American Activities (2024), Amateur (2025)

Sources

  1. These Things Take Time (Molly Nilsson album), Wikipedia
  2. Molly Nilsson discography guide, Bandcamp Daily