First Aid Kit brushes off Father John Misty's advice and succeeds anyway

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• Johanna Söderberg, Klara Söderberg

Years ago two flannel-clad Swedish girls made a home video of themselves in the forest covering a Fleet Foxes song. Their harmonies were immediately an abyss to fall into. The very next day Fleet Foxes heard it and responded. But that's the Internet for you. They then recorded their first highly acclaimed album, The Big Black and the Blue, and that — along with seeing them perform live — was enough to get the attention of Mike Mogis, the Saddlecreek label musical handyman of sorts who can engineer and produce with the best of them. They then proceeded to make "The Lion's Roar," still very much a First Aid Kit record, but a more streamlined, powerful one. Klara, the younger sister, talked to CL about the power of the almighty Internet, double standards with pirating, disregarding Father John Misty's advice to stay in school, and how listening to Joanna Newsom makes her feel like there are no boundaries.

First Aid Kit. $21-$26. 8p.m. Thurs., October 4. The Buckhead Theatre, 3110 Roswell Road. 404-843-2825. http://www.thebuckheadtheatre.com/

I have always kind of looked at you guys as almost the poster children for what can happen via the Internet nowadays. So when you guys released that Fleet Foxes cover song, and then got a reply from them directly the next day, and eventually worked with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, all of that would’ve been impossible without help from the Internet. How much of a role would you say the Internet’s played in your career?

Well I think for us it meant everything. It was through these men that we found music. In Sweden it’s not like you can walk into a record store and find these folk and country records. But through the Internet we could find and listen to them. So that in and of itself played a big part in wanting to make records. And then there was the Fleet Foxes cover, and without YouTube no one would’ve ever seen it. Just the fact that we could send it directly to Fleet Foxes and have them reply to us like that. It couldn’t have happened any other way. But like now if you’re in a band, there’s a very big chance that the Internet’s going to play a very big part in you reaching out to people because it’s so simple nowadays.

Weren’t you sixteen when you guys recorded your first album Big Black and the Blue?

Yeah, I think I was sixteen. For most people two years isn’t that much but since we’re still so young we’re, you know, becoming who we are. We’re still evolving or something, or I hope at least! Laughs

Am I correct in thinking that you’re 19?

I am 19, yes. And Johanna is 21.

And so you both are very young. Not only that, you’re women in an industry jam packed with men. How do you respond to that? You guys are very big for your age. It usually takes people until at least their twenties to do what you all have managed to do.