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Jan 23, 2012First Aid Kit sing harmonies so close you couldn't run a Band Aid between them.
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Oct 9, 2012The Lion's Roar lacks gravitas, but that will come with time and heartbreak. The soul, candor, and the way they sing "darling," that's the hard stuff, and it's scarcely sounded more gorgeous.
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Jan 24, 2012The Lion's Roar is a gorgeous record and a spectacular follow-up to their 2010 debut.
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Mar 29, 2012They save overt prettiness for the music.
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Feb 10, 2012The resulting collection of campfire singalongs proving nothing short of magical.
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MojoJan 31, 2012The lyrics' heavy-hearted take on relationships is more evidence of an astonishing maturity at play. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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Jan 25, 2012First Aid Kit's lustrous new album revels in its passion.
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Jan 24, 2012Who'd have thought the best Americana record of the year would come from two Swedish siblings?
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Jan 23, 2012Some of the best parts of The Lion's Roar are when the Söderbergs harmonize together.
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UncutJan 20, 2012Klara and Johanna Soderberg have crafted a remarkably mature work. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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Jan 20, 2012A beautiful album that proves that sometimes more is more.
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Jan 19, 2012Blessed with clear, characterful voices, employed in beautifully modulated, bell-like harmonies, the Söderbergs find beauty in the bleakness of mortality and the cyclical nature of things.
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Jan 19, 2012The Lion's Roar works because, like their country inspirations, there's a steely toughness to the despair, and their extraordinary harmonies make even the glummest sentiments soar.
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Under The RadarJan 19, 2012Announces First Aid Kit as a fully-fledged musical experience. [#39, p.69]
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Q MagazineJan 19, 2012The sisters harmonise like sisters should, the tunes soar as both country and Bright Eyes should and First Aid Kit is contending like contenders should. [Feb 2012, p. 104]
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Jan 19, 2012The full band which appears on The Lion's Roar enjoys the rare achievement of being saccharine-free, and serves to highlight the sisters' brilliant captured-on-tape chemistry.
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Jan 19, 2012The Lion's Roar is full of rich textures that unfurl around Klara and Johanna's bittersweet harmonies.
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Jan 27, 2012As it is, The Lion's Roar is a quality release, but due to the stand out tracks being placed at the front and the end, the middle section feels weaker than it is, making the overall impression of the album suffer.
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Jan 24, 2012For the sisters' part, their voices are steadier now, and richer.
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Feb 10, 2012Vocals, sparse acoustic backings, gentle snare brushing, the occasional stab of a mellotron all create a very pristine listening experience.
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Feb 1, 2012Mogis never allows the arrangements to pull focus from the Söderbergs' vocals.
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Jan 25, 2012It weaves a pleasingly expanded set of instruments and styles, all under the watchful eye of producer Mike Mogis.
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Jan 25, 2012All in all, the long player establishes that even though the Söderbergs are definitely young, they are wise and mature for their years.
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Jan 24, 2012For the most part, The Lion's Roar is a mesmerizing listen that--alongside recent releases from the likes of the Tallest Man on Earth and Anna Ternheim--suggests the Swedish folk scene is currently hitting something of a purple patch.
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Jan 24, 2012The songs shuffle styles, but the voices transcend genre distinctions--you may not hear a more beautifully sung record this year.
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Jan 20, 2012A gorgeous, gripping study of English and north American folk music that covers as many of the genre's quirks as it can, without crawling from cliché to catastrophe.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 46
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Mixed: 2 out of 46
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Negative: 1 out of 46
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