This album is First Aid Kit as they should be! Album released after this are more country and don't have the beauty and innocence of this. Stand out track for me is 'Ghost Town' - simply beautiful!
After notching up more than 1m YouTube views for their forest-floor cover of Fleet Foxes' Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, in which you can almost see the trees shaking under the air-pushing force of their potent harmonies, this pair of teenage sisters (right) from suburban Stockholm now let fly with their first full set of originals. From the get-go, Klara and Johanna Söderberg's voices are astonishing, with a lung-busting gusto beyond the usual gentility of this kind of pop. The songs tilt at traditional folk sounds with some skill, and there's a melodic ear of real resonance at work in the rise-and-fall hook of Hard Believer, or in the wonderfully twirling lines of Waltz for Richard. There are a couple of indifferent songs, and the musical arrangements behind those amazing voices are sometimes a little underwhelming – but amazing they remain.
The Gardian
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