Monday Music Muse: First Aid Kit
How two Swedish teenagers are redefining indie-folk rock, or what mountain peasants have to do with Fiona Apple.
For most teenage girls, the world of indie music is reduced to the angst-driven overconsumption of Fiona Apple wannabes, preferably blasted in volume that sparks daily yell-fests with mom. But for Swedish duo First Aid Kit, composed of sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, 15 and 18, respectively, indie music is for the making. And make it they do – brilliantly, at that.
Their music, indie folk-rock with a distinct Scandinavian twist, sounds like something that belongs on the Juno soundtrack — boldly quirky vocals, backed by an infectious acoustic guitar, with the occasional perfect drum beat. And while the duo is altogether phenomenal, we were particularly taken with their cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song — an extraordinary outpour of vocal delight, utterly chill-inducing in a way that blows all the Fleet Foxes covers of late out of the water.
First Aid Kit’s debut EP, Drunken Trees, releases tomorrow. But if you absolutely cannot wait, you can thank Jeff Bezos and pre-order it on Amazon today.
Thanks, Minna
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Where do you come by such?
Just AWESOME…just only awesome!
-bs
Ah, a very very dear friend of mine (with impeccable music taste, I should add, and by “impeccable” I mean similar to mine, ha) has the time to sift through MySpace and the graciousness to share the gems she finds with me.
Glad you dig.