First Aid Kit: the Swedish sisters seduced by American folk

They sound like they are from the US, but First Aid Kit are straight out of StockholmOn a temporary stage in St John-at-Hackney church in east London, two tall young women with long, immaculately straight hair are singing about old winds and deserted lakes. Their voices sound American and, if forced to guess, you might say they'd flown here direct from Tennessee or some wooded place deep in the Appalachians. The music that echoes around the church's vaulted ceiling is melancholy, passionate and ...

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