The Perlich Post: First Aid Kit on the way

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

First Aid Kit on the way

Like many people, I became enamoured with First Aid Kit after stumbling onto Johanna and Klara Söderberg's entrancingly harmonized version of Fleet Foxes' Tiger Mountain Peasant Song which went viral on YouTube soon after appearing in 2008 (see below).
Over the past two years, that charming clip of those teenage Swedish sisters from the Stockholm suburb of Enskede singing alone in the woods has been viewed well over a million times which no doubt prompted the UK-based Wichita label to re-release First Aid Kit's Drunken Trees debut EP appended with their sweetly sung take of the Fleet Foxes number as a bonus. Three more songs were also included, similarly recorded in a Swedish forest, closely adhering to the oft-repeated Scandinavian adage "Om det inte är trasigt, laga det inte!" which means, "if it is not broken, do not fix it!"

Wichita has also released First Aid Kit's best original song Ghost Town (check out the amazing unplugged version they did in a taxi) as a seven-inch single with a characteristically haunting rendition of Fever Ray's When I Grow Up on the flip. The even better news is that you may actually be able to pick up a copy of the limited-run seven at First Aid Kit's premier Toronto appearance this week.
Yes it's true. On their way to New York to play some CMJ showcases, First Aid Kit will make a rare local appearance Friday (October 15) at the El Mocambo to present the spellbinding songs from their debut full-length The Big Black & Blue (Wichita). As they say in Sweden, don't miss it!

When I Grow Up (Fever Ray) by First Aid Kit