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F1rst
FIRST AID KIT
Release
date: 3-11-06
Label: closer popnography
Something very special happens when beautiful pop melts with different instrumental layers which irradiate intensity and subtlety, especially when it’s varnished with a voice full of tenderness and feeling. When this occurs it is very special and “first aid kit” have demonstrated this with their extraordinary debut album “f1rst”.
This new band from Barcelona created by Agnès Aran (vocals) and Carles Querol (guitar and sequences), and they express through “f1rst” the most intense pop alchemy. Their search for their own personal expression through electronic and electrical landscapes comes across with astonishing naturalness. They play with intensities, structures and different dynamics like an intricately woven tapestry without any kind of prejudice and with great confidence. “f1rst” is a daring album.
“first aid kit” is incomparable in Spain and you can feel the difference in each and every song, in each melody, in each detail. It’s called “f1rst” because it is a new experience, not only the present Spanish music scene, but for anybody who is ready to accept emotion as a musical companion through a long lasting trip full of captivating sounds and tones. Those who connect with “f1rst” travel passionately through fresh and intimate spaces. “f1rst” is a radiant album.
Their first single “still on fire”, is accompanied by one of the most tender and transgressive video clips ever filmed in Spain. It is desire, it is fire. It‘s a beautiful song that doesn’t stop growing and offers a brilliant initial example of what Agnès and Carles carry within themselves. A sensitivity that hugs electronic music and at the same time an electrical intimacy, applied alchemy in the search of pop. Their ingredients are clear: beauty, emotion, courage, tenderness, light. That is “first aid kit”, that is “f1rst”, which without doubt is a very emotional album.
