First Aid Kit / The Lion's Roar

I'll leave it to a YouTube commenter who is way more clever than I am to voice my sentiments about First Aid Kit:

"Leave it to two sisters from Sweden to teach Nashville what they've been doing wrong for the last 30 years..."

That's exactly how I'd describe the music on First Aid Kit's new album The Lion's Roar, just released one month ago yesterday. Full of classic country and folk chord progressions, warm heart-melting vocal harmonies, and just very eclectic feelings: paralyzingly sad, bright and fun, melancholic, etc. This is for fans of Fleet Foxes, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Icelander Lay Low, and really, honestly, anybody.

Here are videos for the first two singles from the album:

The Lion's Roar


Emmylou

Imaginary Sounds Mix 19: A Night in the Box: Film Songs from the Heartland

Mix #19. Yay! We're nearing a milestone. bates love motel is heading abroad for a while so I'm posting his mix for him while he prepares for that.
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(download full mix) [98MB]

Tumbleweeds rolling in a valley...rocking chairs on a creaky porch...an old rusty pick-up overgrown with weeds...we've always had an interest in the heartland, its hardworking tough-minded people, its ongoing battle between righteous churchgoers and barcrawling rebels, its modern decline from flourishing farming villages to dwindling ghost towns, and certainly the ongoing record of its everyday trials: the music.