Every Monday by means of Friday, we provide a numerous music as element of our music in the morning podcast subscription. This podcast skills exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased tracks, and recordings from impartial performers that our DJs think you will require to hear. every one and every one Friday we provide tracks by regional artists. Today’s selection, featured near to the Afternoon show with Cheryl Waters, is “The Lion’s Roar” by earliest support package deal in spite of the actuality that in the 2012 album The Lion’s Roar on Wichita Records.

First Aid Kit support package deal – The Lion’s Roar (MP3)

First support package deal are Klara and Johanna Söderberg, a pair of folk-singing sisters from Sweden who are actually captivating listeners the world over with their gorgeous vocal harmonies and earthen appeal that suggests wool clothing, untreated hair, along using the ’70s. Inspired by everyone from Joni Mitchell to Conor Oberst, Klara and Johanna introduced their debut full-length album The large dark & The Blue in 2010, once they have been only 17 and 19, respectively. supplied that then they are actually gathering acclaim by means of the durability in the album and their YouTube videos, numerous of that are handles of other well-known songs, most notably a shifting edition of Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” that, fittingly, was recorded in spite of the actuality that in the woods. In 2011 the sisters went to Omaha to report sophomore album with producer Mike Mogis. Mogis, you may possibly recall, is in actuality a member of vibrant Eyes, along using the The Lion’s Roar skills cameos by Conor Oberst himself, along using the Felice Brothers. The name check and today’s featured song, however, skills the sisters Söderberg alone.

First Aid Kit support package deal are presently touring Europe, but will almost certainly be executing in spite of the actuality that in the States starting in March. They will almost certainly be actively playing in the Crocodile in Seattle on April 11. They’ll be reside on KEXP at 3PM that identical day. For much more details concerning the band, click here. in spite of the actuality that in the meantime, here’s the film of the include of Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song,” which has amassed almost three million views supplied that it absolutely was posted in 2008 on YouTube: