- Source: These Things Take Time (Molly Nilsson album)
These Things Take Time is the debut studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson, released on 13 September 2008.
Background
Looking back at the album and its title in 2022, Nilsson explained: I was saying, ‘Okay, patience. I want to make this love affair I have with music last a long time. I don’t want to burn out or you know, throw it up in the air and just see where it lands.’ So I think it was a very good starting point for me.
Production
The album was produced by Nilsson with the keyboard of her then-roommate, with vocals being recorded on her laptop. According to Nilsson, the album's songs were written "over maybe a year’s time", but it was "[made up of] ideas that [she] had collected [her] whole life”.
Themes
The album has been said to deal with "love, partying, and the passage of time".
Release
The album was self-released by Nilsson. She burned it on CD by herself, with a run of 100 copies. In 2018, the album was reissued for Record Store Day. The album was again reissued on CD and vinyl on 30 October 2021.
Reception
In 2013, Roberto Rizzo of Italian magazine Onda Rock cited These Things Take Time as one of the best albums of the preceding five years. Retrospectively, Ed Blair of Bandcamp Daily called it a "remarkably assured arrival", while citing songs "Whiskey Sour" and "Hey Moon!" as ongoing fan favorites.