"Long Gone Before Daylight," the fifth studio album from Swedish rock act the Cardigans, will be issued May 25 in North America via Koch. The album will feature a bonus DVD with videos for the singles "For What It's Worth" and "You're the Storm" and three live clips from last year's Roskilde Festival outside Copenhagen. The CD will also include a bonus cut exclusive to the North American version.

Released last year internationally, the album marks a distinct change in the way the band works, as guitarist Peter Svensson told Billboard last May. "Instead of going straight into the studio with a new song, we spent six months in a rehearsal room and built something around the band," he said. "The sound of the album developed in that room. It was great to discover the band again after 10 years together."

The set mixes uplifting, guitar-based melodies with darkly emotive lyrics that recount tales of frustrated romances and the fragility of relationships. Yet, vocalist Nina Persson was quick to point out that her lyrics are far from autobiographical.

"My life is good," she told Billboard. "I am not a depressed person at all. The songs are not really based on my own experiences. I like to watch people around me. It's a mystery to me that people have such huge problems with relationships. It's a never-ending source of inspiration."

"Daylight" is the follow-up to 1998's "Gran Turismo," which has sold 211,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Cardigans are scheduled to tour North America in May before hitting the European festival circuit this summer.