Preview | First Aid Kit

Why don't you check out the preview of First Aid Kit's debut album over at Gimme Indie? I know i will! The album will be released on January 27th.

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Update! I have been listening to the preview at work all week and love it :) I loved it so much that i had to get tickets for their next live performance in Gothenburg. Yeey!

Cover [me]

Great covers for ya'll on this grey and windy Wednesday.

Timo Räisänen - Creep [Radiohead]


Original version here ---> Radiohead - Creep

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First Aid Kit - Walk The Line [Johnny Cash]


Original version here ---> Johnny Cash - Walk The Line

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Also worth mentioning:
Ola Salo featuring Torsten Flinck - Dansa i Neon [Lena Philipsson]
Håkan Hellström - Jag ger dig min morgon [Fred Åkerström]

New season

November is here and the darkness is upon us [the people of Scandinavia]. We set the clocks back an hour and it makes us sleepier than usual.

Here comes a few favorite videos with the theme of the new season.

Ane Brun - Changing of the seasons


First Aid Kit - You're Not Coming Home Tonight


Jens Lekman - Black Cab


Hello Saferide - Arjeplog

Carolina Wallin Pérez

The wave of cover album is still over us, but this time there comes a discovery of a new talented singer with it. Her name is Carolina Wallin Pérez. A friend discovered her and told me to check it out [thanks Erik!]. It's an album with Kent covers.

Carolina is from the beginning a jazz singer and this album is her interpretation of Kent classics. Like so many of us, she has been listening to Kent since the start and made it her challenge to make their songs "her own" on this album.

Pssst! Carolina Wallin Pérez is playing live with my favorite sister-pair in First Aid Kit in the upcoming weeks. Listen to her at Myspace or Spotify.

Carolina Wallin Pérez - Pärlor [Kent cover]


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Check out Carolina's Myspace for more information.
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First Aid Kit <--- Young talent!

The sisters Klara Söderberg, 15, and Johanna Söderberg, 17 is the duo First Aid Kit. And what a duo! Despite the fact that they hate being called sweet - that's just what they are. They are singing sweet folk-pop and you wouldn't guess their early age from their lyrics. They were discovered by Karin Dreijer from The Knife and Fever Ray and that's why their debut EP Drunken Trees is released on her label Rabid Records. The EP was named Drunken Trees after watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth that mentions how trees lean and look drunken when the permafrost is melting. Insightful title!

The story of First Aid Kit gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. I feel proud when two young girls with a lot of creative joy can put together such a great debut EP on their own. It can only go one way from here and that's forward! This is two young women that takes their music seriously, so don't let their sweetness fool you ;-)

As you might tell, Im already a fan of First Aid Kit, and i think you should be too. So check out their music at Spotify, and the videos below, the Fleet Foxes cover is wonderful! And if you like it, buy it!

Pssst! They are doing a UK tour at the moment, make sure to check out the tour dates on their official website.

First Aid Kit - Hard Believer


First Aid Kit - Summer Session no 1: Universal Soldier [Buffy Saint-Marie]


First Aid Kit - Summer Session no 2: Simple Man [Graham Nash]


First Aid Kit - Cover: Fleet Foxes Tiger Mountain Peasant Song


Press Photo Josefin Klavus

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Find out more about the sisters on their official website and on their Myspace!
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Summer Rain [A Capella]

I stumbled on this video of Anna Ternheims A Capella version of Summer Rain. It was one of the highlights during last weeks concert and here it is! Now the hopes that Anna will release an acoustic version of her latest album is growing... Stay tuned.

Backing up Anna is also among others ElleKari Larsson from The Tiny, Nina Kinert and Ane Brun. I love these collaborations!

Summer Rain