
Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg were found as babes in the woods, teenagers on YouTube singing a Fleet Foxes cover. Their early single, Emmylou, named Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and Gram Parsons in its romantic chorus. The pair have spoken about being unhappy with some of the comments they received at first: who were these young women, living so far from the land of Americana, to put themselves in such company?
But more than a decade and four albums have passed and the world gets First Aid Kit. Their second and third albums, The Lion’s Roar and Stay Gold, became gold sellers over here, while the fourth, Ruins, was their first top five hit.