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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This beautiful album by Swedish sisters Klara and
Johanna Soderberg displays extraordinary musical
maturity and technical dexterity given that they
are only 16 and 19 years old respectively.
The sound they make, however, is as old as Methuselah.
The radiant simplicity and purity of vocal tone displayed
in these twelve economical arrangements is magical.
Their voices combine in harmonies which possess the
capacity to express complex and convincing emotion.
The Roches (sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy) in their
glorious heyday come to mind from time to time and
that is no bad thing. It has everything to do with
the combination of pathos, gently quirky humour and
soaring vocal pyrotechnics.
The album flows from A to Z in a seamless
line of inspired and flawless artistry.
It's difficult to pick out highlights when everything is
so good but standout tracks would have to include :
the whistful 'A Window Opens' with its waltz-time melody and
terse laconic narrative; the heart-wrending country-folk
lament 'Ghost Town'; 'I Met Up With The King', with its
hauntingly surreal imagery and curious instrumental decoration
and the blissfully plaintive reflections of 'Wills Of The River'.
The true beauty of this music arises from the simple fact
that everything we hear is exactly in the right place.
Balanced, coherent and consummately performed, First Aid Kit's
debut album is, a truly remarkable and memorable achievement.
Essential.
Johanna Soderberg displays extraordinary musical
maturity and technical dexterity given that they
are only 16 and 19 years old respectively.
The sound they make, however, is as old as Methuselah.
The radiant simplicity and purity of vocal tone displayed
in these twelve economical arrangements is magical.
Their voices combine in harmonies which possess the
capacity to express complex and convincing emotion.
The Roches (sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy) in their
glorious heyday come to mind from time to time and
that is no bad thing. It has everything to do with
the combination of pathos, gently quirky humour and
soaring vocal pyrotechnics.
The album flows from A to Z in a seamless
line of inspired and flawless artistry.
It's difficult to pick out highlights when everything is
so good but standout tracks would have to include :
the whistful 'A Window Opens' with its waltz-time melody and
terse laconic narrative; the heart-wrending country-folk
lament 'Ghost Town'; 'I Met Up With The King', with its
hauntingly surreal imagery and curious instrumental decoration
and the blissfully plaintive reflections of 'Wills Of The River'.
The true beauty of this music arises from the simple fact
that everything we hear is exactly in the right place.
Balanced, coherent and consummately performed, First Aid Kit's
debut album is, a truly remarkable and memorable achievement.
Essential.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was an [amazon] recommended cd and having listened to some of their music on youtube I decided to buy it.Love their sound.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I saw First Aid Kit at Lounge on the Farm and was mesmerised - I came straight home and bought this. The CD's not quite as fabulous as the live act, but three of the tracks are magical and it's worth owning just for them (In the Morning; Hard Believer; I Met Up With The King). First Aid Kit are two Swedish sisters - 16 and 19 years old, I believe - who sound as though they've been singing together for centuries yet are at the same time wonderfully fresh.
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fist aid kit naff name brilliant music
first heard acouple of years ago doing a tribute to fleet foxes on you tube.these girls have developed their own style of singing. Read more
Published 3 months ago by winchester
Vocalistically genius
Excellent album from the two teenage sisters from Sweden. Musically well beyond their youthful years. Superb vocalists it will draw you in and consume your soul. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2010 by Paul Mitchard
Excellent - but is this the way to the future or the past?
Let's get this straight at the start. I really like this, rather a lot. It is a breathtakingly beautiful collection of songs, which are sung magnificently, Johanna and Klara... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by Mike J. Wheeler
Incredible.
What an absolutely incredible record this is!
Its like the whole folk movement of the 60s didn't happen till now.
Fragile beauty runs seamlessly through each track. Read more
Its like the whole folk movement of the 60s didn't happen till now.
Fragile beauty runs seamlessly through each track. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Paul Price
Prodigious
Since buying this a few days ago, I have listened to little else, and only then because I know I ought to. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2010 by Sandman
Echoes of folk past, voices of the future?
First heard a track off this album played by Bob Harris the same weekend as his extended tribute to the late Kate McGarrigle; how appropriate - this wonderful debut by the two... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2010 by Jan J. Mikula
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