Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes your bike doesn’t work right, and the people you love are far away, and don’t return your phone calls, and there is a weird smell coming from under your kitchen counter that’s probably not going to go away, and you stay up at night worrying about things like the Hadron particle accelerator creating a black hole that will swallow the earth before you have a chance to say you’re sorry. Sometimes it’s like that.
And sometimes a pair of Swedish teenagers go into the forest and record the MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG YOU’VE EVER HEARD.
(what I do know: The band is called First Aid Kit, and they are covering a song by Seattle’s Fleet Foxes)
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I saw this a few weeks ago and it was pretty much the greatest thing ever. I plan to send my kids into the woods with instruments until they are at least this awesome.
Sweden never fails.
Posted by Sarah
September 26, 2008, 3:29 AM
Wow, thanks so much. I just went and found their myspace (http://www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit) and listened to some more of their stuff. I didn't even wait to hear all the ones up there before I went and purchased their seven-song EP called Drunken Trees. I'm really digging it. The seven songs as MP3s from Klicktrack is only 7 bucks, can't beat that. Cheers!
Posted by Catherine
September 28, 2008, 12:32 AM
This is so beautiful and thank you so, so much for posting it. It's exactly what I need right now.
Posted by Molly
September 29, 2008, 9:55 AM
Fleet Foxes loved this cover so much that they posted it on their own MySpace page!
http://www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes
Posted by Nikita
September 29, 2008, 11:22 AM
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