| These Things Take Time | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Molly Nilsson |
| Cover: | Molly Nilsson These Things Take Time artwork.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2007–2008 |
| Genre: | Synth-pop |
| Length: | 50:04 |
| Label: | Dark Skies Association |
| Producer: | Molly Nilsson |
| Next Title: | Europa |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
These Things Take Time is the debut studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson, released on 13 September 2008.
Looking back at the album and its title in 2022, Nilsson explained:
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”.[1]
The album has been said to deal with "love, partying, and the passage of time".[2]
The album was self-released by Nilsson. She burned it on CD by herself, with a run of 100 copies.[3] In 2018, the album was reissued for Record Store Day.[4] The album was again reissued on CD and vinyl on 30 October 2021.[3]
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.[5] Retrospectively, Ed Blair of Bandcamp Daily called it a "remarkably assured arrival", while citing songs "Whiskey Sour" and "Hey Moon!" as ongoing fan favorites.[1]