Sweet Swedish sisters

Johanna and Klara Soderberg make up the sublime folk act First Aid Kit, says Ed Power

JOHANNA Soderberg is explaining how three minutes of grainy home video changed her life. “Me and my sister went into the woods near our home in Stockholm with a camera and played a song. We put it up on YouTube. That was the last we thought about it. Now it has two and a half million hits. It is incredible. Who could see that coming?”

In the clip, Johanna and younger sister Klara perform Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, by the Seattle folk group, Fleet Foxes. Stripped down and ethereal, the video has brought the pair, who record as First Aid Kit, global attention. Still in their teens, they are being touted as one of 2012’s brightest hopes. Reviews of their new album, The Lion’s Roar, have been swoonful. Still January, one critic declared it the album of the year.