The Easy Road

I am so excited about this Friday Favorites. This was actually going to be the last Friday Favorites. That was on Jenny Lewis and her boyfriend Jonathan Rice, I love them. I don't regret making the Friday Favorites on them, but what I originally wanted to do was an article on this Swedish duo, First Aid Kit.

I had to order their album Stay Gold and it didn't come in early enough for me to blog about it for you. I bought so much music recently and all of it deserves a Friday Favorites. It's all amazing. They all had a song that said fuck in it, though. Am I surprised when rapper Rae Sremmurd and Snootie Wild drop a few fucks and shits. No, of course not, rap music is embedded with vulgar language. It's practically part of the culture. However, when sweet little Betty Who casually sings “those kids (…) fucking around” on her song “Runaways” I am mouth open shocked. There is not explicit label on your album. Children could be listening.

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Buy Sremm Life

Buy Go Mode

Buy Take Me When You Go

Buy "Runaways"

I am even more shocked when I'm jamming out to First Aid Kit when their song “Master Pretender” elicited the line “shit gets fucked up” and they even said “god damn” at one point and I'm just like what is happening. I am not weak of heart or offended by any of this, but I just wasn't expecting any of this.

I found out about First Aid Kit last summer. I didn't listen to them. A lot of people were talking about them, I thought their album cover was beautiful, but I just didn't make the time out to invest. Then, their album Stay Gold made a lot of year end lists. Cosmo put them on their list. What I love about Cosmopolitan’s year end lists is that it is always girl powered. You don't see men on it. They don't say this is the best albums by women in 2014. They just say these are the best albums of 2014 and ignore the men. I love it. It's very girl power and awesome and it's one of the reasons I need to get me a subscription.

You probably haven't heard of First Aid Kit. They haven't had a radio hit. They are this indie folk band that's heavily inspired by the sixties and seventies culture. Those are my decades and I am absolutely obsessed with this album. I can't stress enough that they nailed it. 

The first song I heard by them was “My Silver Lining” and it's dreamy music video. It's epic and these sisters are absolutely beautiful and I am jealous. I ordered this album after hearing this song, hands down, I didn't question it. After I ordered it I looked at the other music videos from this album. The two I watched were for “Stay Gold” and “Cedar Lane”. Honestly these would have put me off from buying the album.

Buy "My Silver Lining"

For some reason out of the context of this work as a whole, these songs are almost too heavy. So, if you like “My Silver Lining” just trust me and buy the album. Just go for it. You won't regret it. I'm honestly so upset I didn't buy this album last year, because it would have no doubt made my year end list of best albums. I want to make an exception this year and add it, but I'm not going to.

They are on tour right now, if you see them, tell me, I'm so jealous. They really aren't coming to the United States. Like, their coming, but their coming to the most basic as fuck places. Kentucky. Who goes to Kentucky? Not me. I do not live in Kentucky. I am not driving to Kentucky for some music festival. Any music festival in Kentucky is never going to match Coachella, and if you're not trying to match Coachella what are you doing.  

Buy Stay Gold