For a people blessed with such excellent bone structure, Swedes sure can get down in the mouth. Nina Persson, of Swedish alt-pop veterans the Cardigans, always finds the melancholy in her band's shimmering tunes. With this side project — which includes her husband, Nathan Larson of Washington, D.C., art rockers Shudder to Think — she luxuriates in brooding isolation, orchestral drift...