First Aid Kit announce iTunes session & play Bestival this weekend
First Aid Kit have announced an iTunes session available as of this Monday, including the first recorded version of Patti Smithâs âDancing Barefootâ which is a beauty. They play Bestival on Friday.
Following a superbly assured performance at End of the Road festival on Sunday and being added to the 6 Music A-list with âWolfâ, First Aid Kit will release an exclusive iTunes Session on 10 September.
Recorded in New Yorkâs Sear Sound studio in July, the session includes eight tracks: four songs from their acclaimed second album The Lionâs Roar; one song each from their debut LP The Big Black and the Blue and their debut EP Drunken Trees; upcoming single âWolfâ, previously available only as an iTunes bonus track; and the only recorded version of their celebrated Patti Smith cover âDancing Barefootâ, which has become a live favourite.
Each album or EP track features a slightly restyled arrangement from the earlier recorded versions â highlighting sisters Klara and Johanna Söderbergâs sumptuous harmonies and stellar songwriting â and all are augmented by a full string section for the first time. The Lionâs Roar producer Mike Mogis plays on all songs, and Conor Oberst reprises his guest verse on âKing of the Worldâ. A full track listing for the iTunes Session is below.
They also achieved another career highlight last week when they performed âAmericaâ to a standing ovation from the one and only Paul Simon at the Polar Prize ceremony. Yet another poised performance from these incredibly talented girls. He seems rather smitten too.
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To continue their inexorable rise in 2012, they are releasing album highlight âWolfâ on 17 September and will head back to the UK for their biggest headline dates thus far, calling at Shepherds Bush Empire on 20 November.
Added to this, The Lionâs Roar album will be lavishly re-packaged for release on 17 September with bountiful bonus material including DVD (including on-the-road documentary and single videos), additional tracks, poster, a 20 page booklet and FAK guitar pick!
The album has sold 150, 000 copies worldwide (30, 000 in the UK alone) thus far and is fast becoming one of the biggest indie breakthrough success stories of 2012.
Having toured the world relentlessly since the album release and headlining such auspicious venues as the Irving Plaza in NYC & The Fillmore in San Francisco, First Aid Kit will round off the festival season by playing Bestival this weekend.
From uploading their cover of Fleet Foxes which has now been viewed well over 3 million times (and they have now sung alongside) to touring with the likes of Jack White, Conor Oberst and Lykke LiâŠ.pinching oneself doesnât really cover it.
First Aid Kit iTunes Session track listing:
1. Wolf
2. The Lionâs Roar
3. Emmylou
4. Dancing Barefoot
5. Waltz For Richard
6. Blue
7. Our Own Pretty Ways
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First Aid Kit UK dates:
Thurs 6 Sept Guildford Boiler Room
Fri 7 Sept Bestival
Tue 20 Nov London Shepherds Bush Empire www.livenation.co.uk
Thu 22 Nov Manchester Ritz www.ticketline.co.uk
Sat 24 Nov Glasgow QMU www.gigsinscotland.com
Tue 27 Nov Bristol Academy www.gigsandtours.com
Praise for The Lionâs Roar â
âAlbum of the Weekâ Independent on Sunday
âA brilliant album from sisters Klara and Johanna Soderbergâ 5/5 Sunday Telegraph
âAn intoxicating mix of widescreen Americana and Scandinavian poiseâ 4.5/5 The Sun
âThe voices of Johanna and Klara are enough to weaken knees… The lyricsâ heavy-hearted take on relationships is more evidence of an astonishing maturityâ 4/5 Mojo
âKlara and Johanna Söderberg have crafted remarkably mature workâ 4/5 Uncut
âItâs pretty perfectâ 8/10 NME
âNothing short of magicalâ 4/5 The Fly
âThe second album from the Swedish Soderberg sisters is full to the brim with charmâ
4/5 The Guardian
âA country-rock revelationâ 4/5 The Independent
âThereâs genuine beauty hereâ 4/5 Evening Standard
âTheir truly sublime sibling harmonies are still the shining beacon they always wereâ 4/5 The List
âThe Lionâs Roar is full of rich textures that unfurl around Klara and Johannaâs bittersweet harmonies… First Aid Kit have woven their Swedish sangfroid into a bewitching brand of Americanaâ 8/10 Clash
â4/5â Q
â4/5â The Times
â4/5â Daily Mirror
â8/10â Loud & Quiet