In 2016, the music world mourned the passing of
Leonard Cohen and tumbled over each other to pay tribute to this Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. A theatrical concert of Cohen's songs and poetry took place in Stockholm, with leading roles for the sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit. A presentation that did full justice to Cohen's darkly romantic songs, as this registration
… shows. Cohen's repertoire has always been in good hands with singers such as Jennifer Warnes and Martha Wainwright. First Aid Kit also dares to give their own depths and thus new dimensions to, for example, the ferociously performed death song Who By Fire (with a parlando middle section) or the complex love story Famous Blue Raincoat. The dark jazz-folk arrangements of the accompanying ensemble are also beautiful. An album that differs from the sisters' own work, which is more based on Americana, but First Aid Kit has never sounded so driven. (MR)more
