First Aid Kit debut on UK album chart at #11 and play Letterman
First Aid Kit have made a triumphant return with their brand new album Stay Gold entering the UK chart at #11 this weekend. Stay Gold also became the duo’s second #1 album in their native Sweden – following The Lion’s Roar in 2012 – and hit #23 in the US.
The girls marked the release of Stay Gold with an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, where they performed the album’s lead single, ’My Silver Lining’. Watch the exquisite and string-assisted performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Having sold out London’s Islington Assembly Hall earlier this year, First Aid Kit will play Latitude and Green Man festivals in the UK this summer before embarking on a UK headline tour in September, culminating in a night at London’s hallowed Royal Albert Hall on 24 September. Full listings below.
With Stay Gold, First Aid Kit – sisters Klara and Johanna Soderberg – have honed their musical skills and blossomed as vivid storytellers in creating an ambitious 10-song collection. Recorded at ARC studios in Omaha and produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk), the duo enlisted local Omaha musicians to play on the record, with arrangements by Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes, Broken Bells, Rilo Kiley).
Praise for Stay Gold
“First Aid Kit’s songs are as ancient as music itself, but as new as a freshly broken heart. Extraordinary” Sunday Times
“As if Lion’s Roar had been rerecorded in widescreen format without losing any of the albums’ naive charm” 5/5 Independent On Sunday
“A towering body of stirring, beguiling original songs” 9/10 Clash
“A confident, beautifully crafted work filled with songs set to raise the roof in ever larger venues” 4.5/5 The Sun
“Anything Jack White can do, they can do too. Twice over” 4/5 Q
“The aural equivalent of lying down in a sunny meadow, located somewhere between Stockholm and Nashville” 4/5 The Telegraph
“Those harmonies still aim right for the heart” 4/5 The Independent
“Embracing experience in all its prickly incarnations might make for a tricky life but the payoff is the creation of ever more beautiful and emotionally engaging music” 8/10 Uncut
“The siblings have carefully crafted a tender batch of songs that disarm with not only their beauty but their honesty” 8/10 NME
“A resounding success” 4/5 DIY Magazine
“It sounds roughly like Neko Case fronting Fleet Foxes, but on Alice in Wonderland’s big pills” Observer
“The duo’s excellent third album has the sweetness of a babbling creek and the toughness of a sun-bleached prairie” Esquire
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“Consistent and ambitious” The Quietus
“Stuffed with melodies to sing along to, beats to boogie at and choruses to go wild in” 9/10 Music OMH
“The beauty of their harmonies and the sheer perfection of the sound of their voices together elevate their songs to something beautiful” 8.5/10 The Line of Best Fit
First Aid Kit live dates summer 2014
19 July Latitude Festival
17 August Green Man Festival
16 Sept Old Fruitmarket Glasgow
17 Sept Empire Music Hall Belfast
20 Sept Albert Hall Manchester
21 Sept Colston Hall Bristol
24 Sept Royal Albert Hall London