Following a superb performance at End of the Road and Bestival, plus their new single 'Wolf' being added to the 6 Music A-list, First Aid Kit this week release their exclusive iTunes Session, recorded at New York’s Sear Sound in July. The iTunes Session is available from the iTunes store here whilst a selection of songs ('Emmylou' and 'The Lion's Roar') from their performance at Bestival this weekend are available to stream on the festival's official YouTube channel.
The iTunes Session highlights Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg’s songwriting and performance prowess, here augmented by a full string section for the first time. These eight tracks are slightly restyled arrangements of four songs found on their acclaimed sophomore LP 'The Lion’s Roar'; one each from debut album 'The Big Black and the Blue' and their 'Drunken Trees' EP; live staple and next single 'Wolf' and their celebrated cover of Patti Smith’s 'Dancing Barefoot', never before recorded. 'The Lion’s Roar' producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters Of Folk) performs on all tracks, while Conor Oberst reprises his guest verse on 'King of the World'.
First Aid Kit iTunes Session tracklisting is as follows:
1. Wolf
2. The Lion’s Roar
3. Emmylou
4. Dancing Barefoot
5. Waltz For Richard
6. Blue
7. Our Own Pretty Ways
8. King of the World
Their cover of Patti Smith's 'Dancing Barefoot' is also now available to stream on SoundCloud here.
To continue their inexorable rise in 2012, First Aid Kit are releasing album highlight 'Wolf' on 16th September and will head back to the UK for their biggest headline dates thus far, calling at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 20th November.
Added to this, 'The Lion’s Roar' album will be lavishly re-packaged for release on 17th September with bountiful bonus material including DVD (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.
Tue November 20th 2012 - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Thu November 22nd 2012 - HMV Ritz, Manchester
Sat November 24th 2012 - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow
Tue November 27th 2012 - O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol
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