“Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” - Fleet Foxes Cover
“You’re Not Coming Home Tonight”
First Aid Kit is a Swedish duo formed by sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg from Enskede, a suburb south of Stockholm. They’re young - Klara is 15 and Johanna 17. The music they create could, however, hardly be called young, it’s rather ancient. The emphasis is on narrative lyrics accompanying playful melodies with intense, thick harmonies. This is nothing new.
The musical journey of Klara and Johanna began, as so many others have, with singing karaoke to various pop songs that leaked into their childhood home. It was Britney, Christina and so on. Nevertheless, they turned away from their earlier musical path a few years later, when they discoverd music that could touch them in a way completley new to them. An entry to this new way of experiencing music came with Bright Eyes, the alias of singer/songwriter Conor Oberst, Leonard Cohen and Mr. Dylan to name a few. Klara almost describes her first encounter with the song “First Day of My Life” by the earlier mentioned Bright Eyes as a revelation.
How do you find all these little gems, Shouter. Rhetorical question , no answer expected - just happy to see a new entry.
I like their clean simple sound and will look for more samples. Having issues with MySpace at the moment but assume they have more music on their player so will try later.
I love these voices, and the songs are very good too — hope we hear more of them.