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First Aid Kit , a duo of startingly talented and young sisters from Stockholm, show that Swedes not only do pop best, but they also kill at folk music. Take a look at the video of their acoustic cover of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" and tell me it doesn't take your breath away (especially when backup sister Johanna Söderberg comes in). And "I Met Up With the King" (downloadable below, and also on JeffMix2010.02.21 ) , with Klara's feisty, world-weary vocals, lives up to the motto on their MySpace page : "We aim for the [...]

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