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First Aid Kit

Palomino

    Fifth studio album by the Swedish folk duo. Released four years after their previous album, Ruins, it’s probably their most upbeat album to date. The country tinged melodies are embellished with horns and subtle string swells providing a lush backdrop for the sisters’ distinctive vocal harmonizing.

    “This is the first record we’ve recorded in Sweden since we made our debut album The Big Black & The Blue 12 years ago! We worked with Swedish producer Daniel Bengtson at his lovely studio Studio Rymden in Stockholm. It was such a fun experience. We really let the recording take time, we didn’t want to rush it.”

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    Liam says: Mainstays of modern folk, First Aid Kit are back with their fifth LP 'Palomino' and the first to be recorded in their home of Sweden since their debut 12 years ago. Full of grand and sweeping orchestral vistas and the band's signature vocal harmonies, 'Palomino' another gem in the duo's catalogue!

    TRACK LISTING

    SIDE A
    1. Out Of My Head
    2. Angel
    3. Ready To Run
    4. Turning Onto You
    5. Fallen Snow
    6. Wild Horses II
    SIDE B
    1. The Last One
    2. Nobody Knows
    3. A Feeling That Never Came
    4. 29 Palms Highway
    5. Palomino

    First Aid Kit

    The Big Black And The Blue (Love Record Stores Edition)

      Love Record Stores Edition available from 9am on Saturday June 20th.
      Limited to one per person.


      Sea blue vinyl.

      With Stay Gold, First Aid Kit - sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg – have honed their musical skills and blossomed as vivid storytellers in creating an ambitious 10-song collection. Recorded at ARC studios in Omaha and produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk), the duo also enlisted The Omaha Symphony Orchestra to play on the record, with arrangements by Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes, Broken Bells, Rilo Kiley). They say of the recording process, “We took new directions and turns with the arrangements, building them up and creating more dynamics, yet always following where the songs wanted to go.”

      TRACK LISTING

      1. My Silver Lining 
      2. Master Pretender  
      3. Stay Gold
      4. Cedar Lane  
      5. Shattered & Hollow  
      6. The Bell  
      7. Waitress Song  
      8. Fleeting One  
      9. Heaven Knows  
      10. A Long Time Ago

      First Aid Kit

      The Lion's Roar

        Swedish sisters First Aid Kit have gone from faraway teenage fans covering Fleet Foxes for fun to recording a blue series 7” of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘Universal Soldier’ with Jack White in his Nashville, TN Third Man studios.

        This, their second album, was recorded in Spring 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Jenny Lewis, Monsters Of Folk). From the dynamic title track onwards, the sophomore album is a rich and stirring affair that expands upon the keen and sophisticated country tinged pop of their critically acclaimed debut.

        ‘The Lion’s Roar’ is a full band record, the Girls’ Father Benkt takes the bass, Mattias Bergqvist drums, while Mogis and Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes, and a cast of Omaha-based musicians round out the sound.

        Album closer ‘King Of The World’ features the Felice Brothers, just passing through town during the session, and local hero Conor Oberst, who sings the last verse.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. The Lion’s Roar
        2. Emmylou
        3. In The Hearts Of Men
        4. Blue
        5. This Old Routine
        6. To A Poet
        7. I Found A Way
        8. Dance To Another Tune
        9. New Year’s Eve
        10. King Of The World

        CD Bonus Track:
        11. Wolf

        First Aid Kit

        The Big Black & The Blue

        Prodigious Swedish teenagers Klara (16) and Johanna Söderberg (19), AKA First Aid Kit, have been gathering fans apace throughout 2009 since the release of their “Drunken Trees” EP in February.
        Spending their formative years drinking from the fountain of American classics – everything from Buffy Sainte-Marie, to the likes of Conor Oberst – it shaped their way with song writing, arrangements and even the use of a second language. Audiences have been falling at their feet, enraptured by their pure, shimmering voices in harmony. Until now they have been rightfully praised for their astonishing cover versions, such as their infamous YouTube phenomenon of Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song”, but First Aid Kit are now unveiling some remarkable songs of their own. The first flourishes can be heard on this masterly debut album, built around the sweeping majesty and almost telekinetic, intricate weaving of their voices. Sounding like the dreamy and spectral nieces of the Indigo Girls or Michelle Shocked coming in from the campfire to settle at the Stockholm kitchen table, the Söderberg’s distil all of their collective influences and make them their own.

        TRACK LISTING

        01. In The Morning
        02. Hard Believer
        03. Sailor Song
        04. Waltz For Richard
        05. Heavy Storm
        06. Ghost Town
        07. Josefin
        08. A Window Opens
        09. Winter Is All Over You
        10. I Met Up With The King
        11. Wills Of The River


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