First Aid Kit - The Big Black And The Blue

Review by James Lawrenson

Certain aspects of certain bands are always inescapable when discussing their music. Bon Iver lived in a cabin; Portishead take ages between records; The Strokes will never match Is This It; etcetera, etcetera. The same indubitably goes for young artists, perhaps because those writing about them feel a melancholic disappointment at their own comparative attainments at that age. And so it is with First Aid Kit, aged just 16 and 19 years old and already releasing their debut album.»