Fanfarlo announce tour with First Aid Kit

London twee pop band Fanfarlo (previous post) have announced a full UK tour with folk band First Aid Kit, along with a money-saving presale via MusicGlue. If you haven't already heard First Aid Kit, they are a swedish acoustic duo, made up of Klara and Johanna Söderberg from Stockholm Sweden, who got quite a following after covering Fleet Foxes' Tiger Mountain Peasant Song late last year. Following it's success, they set up their twitter to take requests for more songs to cover. The first video of the lot, a cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Universal Soldier, is embedded below.



They have The Drunken Trees EP out now, and is definitely worth a listen and you can request more covers at their website. The link for the cheap Fanfarlo tour presale is HERE.

First Aid Kit - Little Moon is the first track from the EP.

September 28 Manchester – Deaf Institute
September 29 York – Fibbers
September 30 Glasgow – ABC2
October 2 Middlesbrough – Westgarth
October 3 Nottingham – Bodega
October 5 Oxford – Jericho Tavern
October 6 London – Bush Hall
October 7 Brighton – Hanbury Ballroom
October 8 Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
October 9 Leeds – Brudenell Social Club

Fanfarlo

Fanfarlo (from the novel 'La Fanfarlo' are a London based indie pop band whose debut album 'Reservoir' was released (after a year of recording in Conneticut) in February of 2009. In an attempt to make their music more widely available, the album is available until 4th July for $1.

Under prized producer Peter Katis (The National, Interpol, The Twilight Sad), Reservoir displays instrumentally dense indie rock, with a full Arcade Fire feel to their sound. The influence of Katis is clear throughout, and like the sounds of The National and The Twilight Sad, Fanfarlo do a fantastic job of keeping each instrument's recording concise, whilst including more than your average folk band.

Ultimately there is a twee pop lightness and air of youth to their work, and particularly to Swedish guitarist and vocalist Simon Balthazar's fragile vocal part. The band draw another similarity, whether intended or not, to London based folk band Mumford & Sons particularly in vocal sound and structure.
They have recently played dates at SXSW Festival, and they spent the March of 2009 on a UK tour with Snow Patrol. You can pick up the album for a dollar below, or two of the album highlights for nothing whatsoever.

Reservoir for $1.
Fanfarlo - Luna
Fanfarlo - I'm a Pilot