First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar (Album)
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The second record from Swedish duo First Aid Kit is almost impossible to hate.
Jam packed with the sugar-coated lyrics and folky sounds that stole hearts in their first album (The Big Black and Blue, 2010), The Lion’s Roar follows the same winning formula.
From the first and title track, The Lion’s Roar, the stunning Swedish sisters capture your heart with their sweet voices.
They sing in harmony about love, family and loss, but strong acoustics add plenty of oomph and depth to the majority of their tunes. And the album offers enough variety to keep you listening.
Loads of percussion and upbeat melodies, most of the tracks are sweeter than an ice-cream on a hot summer’s day.
But this album also boasts tunes with heartfelt, wintry lyrics that warm you like a cup of hot chocolate in a snowy mountain cottage.
Take track two for instance. Aptly named Emmylou, the song has strong country roots and with lyrics like ‘Stockholm’s cold but I’ve been told I was born to endure this kind of weather’, the girls transport you to a frosty winter in Sweden. It’s the sort of song you can imagine listening to as you huddle around a toasty warm fireplace in a cottage in the middle of the woods.
Track four, Blue, on the other hand, takes you to another climate – reminiscent of Australian pop starlet Lisa Mitchell, loads of poppy upbeat percussion and high notes pull you back to that bright sunny day the album started with.
Their similarities with the Fleet Foxes are hard to ignore, and their widely publicised cover of the Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song builds on this likeness, but these girls deserve all the praise they’re getting as their fanbase continues to grow worldwide.
