Blog: For The Sake Of The Song

A friend of mine recenty alerted me to the charms of young Swedish girl duo First Aid Kit. Thanks for the heads-up, bud: the warm, fresh and just a tad naïve pop of their full-lenghth debut The Big Black And The Blue goes down a treat here. No-frills acoustic bliss, located somewhere halfway between late-sixties Laurel Canyon and modern Stockholm. "I wish that I could have known by then... we all know now that we're never getting back to those times..." Johanna and Klara´s earlier cover of the Fleet Foxes beauty Tiger Mountain Peasant Song [...]

• First Aid Kit - Heavy Storm
• First Aid Kit - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
• Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song