Album Reviews

First Aid Kit’s new album is just what the doctor ordered

Palomino is the Swedish sibling duo’s most rounded release yet and, like a lot of recent releases, has been influenced by some Covid lockdown themes

Klara and Johanna Söderberg of Swedish musical duo First Aid Kit: the sisters are dab hands at fusing sleek Americana with flawless melody lines

AMERICANA/POP: First Aid Kit , Palomino (Columbia)

Swedish sibling duo First Aid Kit (Klara and Johanna Söderberg) uploaded their first material to MySpace in 2007. Influenced by the likes of Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams, the then teenagers were thrust into the lion’s den of trying to impress elder lemon fans of classic 70s country music and Americana. It seemed an unlikely genre area for young women to enter let ...