Album artwork for The Big Black and The Blue by First Aid Kit

Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg found global fame via their YouTube cover of Fleet Foxes's 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song', matching the Foxes's vocal prowess with stunning sibling harmonies. This debut album showcases their own songs, styled somewhere between Kentucky folk and Everly Brothers pop, and borne along by acoustic guitar and autoharp. The sound is mournful but the sisters' teen sensibilities are bright and defiant on standouts like 'Hard Believer'. Elsewhere, say on 'Winter is All Over You', they entwine backwoods imagery and romantic suffering as cannily as big American brothers like Midlake. More variation would help but there's irrepressible talent at work.CD with 4 bonus tracks performed live on KCRW.

First Aid Kit

The Big Black and The Blue

Wichita Recordings
Album artwork for The Big Black and The Blue by First Aid Kit
LP

£19.99

Released 15/02/2010Catalogue Number

webb222lp

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Album artwork for The Big Black and The Blue by First Aid Kit
CD

£8.99

Released 25/01/2010Catalogue Number

webb222cdx

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First Aid Kit

The Big Black and The Blue

Wichita Recordings
Album artwork for The Big Black and The Blue by First Aid Kit
LP

£19.99

Released 15/02/2010Catalogue Number

webb222lp

Learn more
Album artwork for The Big Black and The Blue by First Aid Kit
CD

£8.99

Released 25/01/2010Catalogue Number

webb222cdx

Learn more

Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg found global fame via their YouTube cover of Fleet Foxes's 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song', matching the Foxes's vocal prowess with stunning sibling harmonies. This debut album showcases their own songs, styled somewhere between Kentucky folk and Everly Brothers pop, and borne along by acoustic guitar and autoharp. The sound is mournful but the sisters' teen sensibilities are bright and defiant on standouts like 'Hard Believer'. Elsewhere, say on 'Winter is All Over You', they entwine backwoods imagery and romantic suffering as cannily as big American brothers like Midlake. More variation would help but there's irrepressible talent at work.CD with 4 bonus tracks performed live on KCRW.