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.

Check out our album review of Artist's The Lion’s Roar on Rolling Stone.com.

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.

<p>First Aid Kit's extraordinary harmonies make even their glummest sentiments soar, says <strong>Rebecca Nicholson</strong></p>

First Aid Kit's The Lion's Roar has sumptuous harmonies.