The Lion's Roar
The Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg's sophomore album was recorded in Omaha with Bright Eyes' Mike Mogis and features guest spots from Conor Oberst and the Felice Brothers.
_The Lion's Roar_ continues much in the same fashion as the duo's first record while still remaining impressive. If anything, the material on the new LP feels a lot bigger due largely to the use of a full band featuring the girls' father as well as Mogis himself and Nate Walcott, also of Bright Eyes.
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If 2010's The Big Black & The Blue marked their initial emergence from the backwoods of Stockholm from the resonant echoes of their now notorious Fleet Foxes cover, it's with The Lion’s Roar that the Söderberg sisters reveal their American-inspired full band ambition. Working in Omaha, Nebraska with Mike Mogis, First Aid Kit find themselves able to actualise the sound of their favourite American country records, but with the perfect sombreness of outsiders.
To hear First Aid Kit is to undergo a restructuring of what geography means to music.
The Söderberg sister's follow-up to 2010's intimate 'The Big Black And Blue' is their first full-band recording.
But if the words sound battered by life, the music is filled with it, and The Lion's Roar works because, like their country inspirations, there's a steely toughness to the despair, and their extraordinary harmonies make even the glummest sentiments soar.
The sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg sure have come a long way since making their debut as teenagers with 2008’s Drunken Trees EP, both musically and career-wise. The younger of the two sisters may still be a teenager, but they have been making music and touring heavily for years now, and that experience adds a