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FIRST AID KIT In October 2017, First Aid Kit celebrated their tenth year as a band, but it’ll be August this year that marks perhaps their most life-changing anniversary. Being one of Sweden’s finest exports since Abba, Klara and Johanna Söderberg’s brand of twinkly country folk has won them loyal fans. Yet ten years on, and the duo’s early potential has unsurprisingly blossomed. Critically acclaimed albums have come to be expected, and high-profile collaborations with the likes of Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, REM’s Peter Buck and even Fleet Foxes themselves, are often only a phone call away. But being in demand has taken its toll. As George Henry King found out, their sound – and attitude – has had to toughen up.