A Camp — Cardigans chanteuse Nina Persson with husband (and Shudder To Thinker) Nathan Larson and fellow Swede Niklas Frisk — are set to release a second album Colonia, following 2001′s eponymous debut. On it, the trio’s joined by a number of guest musicians — ex-Dambuilder and late-period GVB drummer Kevin March, Joan Wasser (aka Joan As Police Woman), Nicolai Dunger, and James Iha — but what sticks out most is Persson’s expressive, always comforting voice. Fittingly, we spoke with her about the lyrics and ideas behind album track “Love Has Left The Room,” which debuts in this week’s Drop.

The song depicts lost love as something that literally gets lost or slips the mind … disappears. You also sing about embers, after a flame dies out. Embers take a long time to extinguish. That said, how much of a trace lingers after love leaves? In the context of the song (or according to your own life belief), is it ever truly entirely gone?
Well, I really think that a lot of traces remain after love has left the room, and the song is about a love that left without a really clear ending, so that’s probably even worse! No closure … sucks. But in my experience, love can certainly also disappear completely. I have a few exes that I’d rather die than be with again, and some that became very very close friends after we tried to have a sexual relationship.

When love finally does leave the room, where does it go?
It goes to the sky bar at the Mondrian in LA and fucks with someone else.

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Colonia is out in the US 4/28 via Nettwerk.