First aid kit

First aid kit
First Aid Kit (Frankfurt am Main, February 18, 2012)
General information
Genre (s)	Folk , indie pop
founding	2007
Website	firstaidkitband.com
Founding members
Vocals , keyboard , autoharp	Johanna Söderberg
Vocals , guitar	Klara Söderberg

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The Big Black & the Blue   SE 30th 02/05/2010 (2 weeks) The Lion's Roar   DE 69 02/03/2012 (1 week)   AT 55 02/03/2012 (1 week)   CH 76 02/05/2012 (3 weeks)   UK 35  gold 02/04/2012 (9 weeks)   US 65 02/04/2012 (3 weeks)   SE 1  platinum 01/27/2012 (195 weeks) Stay gold   DE 69 06/20/2014 (1 week)   CH 37 06/15/2014 (6 weeks)   UK 11  gold 06/21/2014 (44 weeks)   US 23 06/28/2014 (6 weeks)   SE 1  platinum 06/13/2014 (85 weeks) Ruins   DE 42 01/26/2018 (1 week)   AT 37 02/02/2018 (1 week)   CH 11 01/28/2018 (4 weeks)   UK 3  silver 02/01/2018 (11 weeks)   US 47 02/03/2018 (2 weeks)   SE 1  gold 01/26/2018 (25 weeks)

Singles

The Lion's Roar   SE 22nd 01/27/2012 (7 weeks) Emmylou   SE 24 02/10/2012 (7 weeks) My silver lining   CH 38 07/05/2015 (4 weeks)   SE 38 04/18/2014 (7 weeks) Fireworks   SE 47 01/26/2018 (3 weeks) To Live a Life   SE 64 01/26/2018 (1 week) Rebel Heart   SE 65 01/26/2018 (1 week) It's a shame   SE 77 01/26/2018 (1 week) Distant star   SE 82 01/26/2018 (1 week) Ruins   SE 85 01/26/2018 (1 week) Postcard   SE 93 01/26/2018 (1 week)

First Aid Kit (Frankfurt am Main, September 30, 2014)

First Aid Kit is a Swedish indie pop - duo consisting of sisters Johanna (* 31 October 1990 ) and Clare (* 8. January 1993 ) Soderberg, from Enskede , a suburb of Stockholm , originate.

history

In April 2007, the sisters began uploading their homemade songs to the social networking website MySpace . They also sent a demo of their song Tangerine to a Swedish radio station. With the song, the duo landed a summer hit.

First Aid Kit released their debut EP Drunken Trees on April 9, 2008 on The Knife label Rabid Records . A re-release of the sound carrier by Wichita Recordings in February 2009 also contained the track Tiger Mountain Peasant Song , a cover by the band Fleet Foxes , with which First Aid Kit became known on YouTube in 2008 .

The debut LP The Big Black & the Blue was released on January 25, 2010. The first single was Hard Believer (with B-side Waltz for Richard ) on October 5, 2009.

In August 2011 First Aid Kit made their first appearance at the Polar Music Prize award in Stockholm. They played dancing barefoot for winner Patti Smith . Their emotional reaction to this ensured that the official video of the TV broadcast generated a great response and further increased the band's profile.

In January 2012 their second album The Lion's Roar was released , which they recorded with various musicians under the direction of Mike Mogis ( Bright Eyes ) in Omaha , Nebraska. They received vocal support from Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst on the track King of the World . Her first and title-giving single, The Lion's Roar , was inspired by Townes Van Zandt . The second single Emmylou pays homage to her role models Emmylou Harris , Gram Parsons , June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash , who are mentioned in the chorus. The video was shot in Joshua Tree National Park on the rock formation "Cap Rock", alluding to the grotesque circumstances of the death of the singer Gram Parsons, who died in 1973. Emmylou was voted one of the top 10 songs of 2012 by Rolling Stone magazine .

In August 2012, First Aid Kit performed for the second time at the Polar Music Prize. They played America by Simon & Garfunkel for the award winner Paul Simon . A studio version of it was released on an EP of the same name in 2015.

In 2014, First Aid Kit contributed vocals on a total of six tracks from Conor Oberst's solo album Upside Down Mountain , after they had accompanied the Bright Eyes singer on his European tour in 2013.

Her third studio album, Stay Gold , was released on Columbia Records on June 10, 2014 and, like its predecessor, was produced by Mike Mogis. Previously, the single My Silver Lining was released on March 31, and Cedar Lane on May 6 . Stay Gold was awarded the Swedish Grammis for Album of the Year 2014 .

At the end of October, a cover version of REM's Walk Unafraid appeared on the soundtrack of the film The Big Trip - Wild . In Germany, the song My Silver Lining was used in an advertisement for the Renault Kadjar in 2015 . On June 9, 2015, First Aid Kit played Emmylou and Red Dirt Girl at the Polar Music Prize for winner Emmylou Harris.

First Aid Kit started touring in the summer of 2017. From the upcoming album they played the songs Fireworks and It's a Shame . In October 2017, the release of their new album Ruins for January 19, 2018 was announced via the website and social networks .

In September 2017, the band's internet addresses were changed to firstaidkitband for the official site, Instagram and Facebook and thus also for their Twitter account.

Discography

Albums

• 2010: The Big Black & the Blue
• 2012: The Lion's Roar
• 2014: Stay Gold
• 2018: Ruins

EPs

• 2008: Drunken Trees
• 2014: America
• 2018: Tender Offerings

Singles

• 2009: You're Not Coming Home Tonight / Tangerine
• 2009: Hard Believer / Waltz for Richard
• 2010: I Met Up with the King
• 2010: Ghost Town
• 2011: Universal Soldier / It Hurts Me Too
• 2011: The Lion's Roar
• 2012: Emmylou
• 2012: Wolf
• 2014: My Silver Lining (UK:silver)
• 2014: Cedar Lane
• 2015: Stay Gold
• 2017: It's a Shame
• 2018: Fireworks

Awards

In February 2013 First Aid Kit was awarded four times the Swedish Grammis Music Prize, as Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Pop Song of the Year and Composer of the Year. The album The Lion's Roar was awarded the Nordic Music Prize in 2013 .

In February 2015, First Aid Kit was nominated as one of the top five international groups by Brit Awards. In February, First Aid Kit was again awarded the Swedish Grammis Music Prize for Album of the Year.

year	Award	category	plant	Result
2011	Grammis 2011	Newcomer of the year 2011	The Big Black and The Blue	Nominated
2013	Grammis 2013	Album of the year 2013	The Lion's Roar	Won
		Artist of the year 2013		Won
		Pop of the year 2013	The Lion's Roar	Won
		Composer of the year 2013	The Lion's Roar	Won
		Copywriter of the year 2013	The Lion's Roar	Nominated
2015	Grammis 2015	Album of the year 2015	Stay gold	Won
		Song of the year 2015	My silver lining	Nominated
		Pop of the year 2015	Stay gold	Nominated
2019	Grammis 2019	Song of the year 2019	Fireworks	Nominated
		Alternative Pop of the Year 2019	Ruins	Nominated

Web links

Commons : First Aid Kit  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• First Aid Kit at laut.de
• First Aid Kit at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US SE
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK SE
3. ^ Book of Friends, Swedish Radio P3, July 9, 2013 . Sverigesradio.se. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2014. 
4. ↑ Bäst July 2007 . sverigesradio.se. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 19, 2015. 
5. ↑ youtube.com/user/jagadambarecords
6. ↑ drownedinsound.com
7. ^ First Aid Kit - Dancing Barefoot at Polar Music Prize. Polar Music Prize, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
8. ↑ brooklynrocks.blogspot.com
9. ^ First Aid Kit about performing for Polar Music Prize Laureate Emmylou Harris. Polar Music Prize, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Christian Düringer: The Sound Of Joshua Tree In: get happy !? Magazine. No. 5, 2013, pp. 52-57
11. ↑ 50 Best Songs of 2012. Rolling Stone, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
12. ^ Conor Oberst's New Morning: Bright Eyes Hits Nashville for Solo LP. Rolling Stone, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Aftonbladet.se, Grammis Award Winner 2013 , accessed on February 21, 2013
14. ^ First Aid Kit wins the third annual Nordic Music Prize! . Nordicmusicprize.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
15. ↑ The BRIT Awards winners 2015 . February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
16. ^ Swedish Grammis 2015: First Aid Kit and Max Martin win big . In: MBW . Retrieved February 26, 2015.