After capturing hearts with a Fleet Foxes cover, and notching up more than 1 million YouTube views, the pair of teenage sisters from suburban Stockholm have released, 'The Big Black and the Blue' the follow up to their debut EP, 'Drunken Trees'.
'The Big Black and The Blue' is an emotive, breathy, melancholic folk soundtrack to their lives with vocal harmonies which belie their tender years, although they are young, they posses old souls, and a maturity in their storytelling, with beautifully plucked guitars and heavenly vocals.
Klara and Johanna Söderberg's voices are astonishing from the get-go; they have a phenomenal way with gorgeous melodies and heart-melting harmonies.
The evocative, echoing harmonies of opener ‘In the Morning’, paves the way for the lyrically captivating and note perfect ‘Hard Believer’ that showcases their vocals best, and the twirling lines with the ’60s swing of ‘Waltz for Richard’.
While there are tracks of beauty and wonder on the album, there are also some duller moments, and the musical arrangements behind those amazing voices are sometimes underwhelming. The instrumentation is primitive, the acoustic guitar occasionally augmented by flurries of piano.
Track listing:
1. In The Morning
2. Hard Believer
3. Sailor Song
4. Waltz for Richard
5. Heavy Storm
6. Ghost Town
7. Josefin
8. A Window Opens
9. Winter Is All Over You
10. I Met Up With the King
11. Wills of the River
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