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First Aid Kit – Stay Gold

Singing sisters' major-label debut is a glittering folk-pop tapestry of Scandi-angst... When they first started releasing music six years ago, teenage Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg named their band in acknowledgement of the healing power of song. On their third album the pair sound in need of a dose of their own medicine. The emotions driving these ten tracks are as troubled and uncertain as the music is gloriously resolved.

Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

His first studio album for eight years finds Cohen addressing waning physical powers and moral uncertainties...
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