First Aid Kit

"America" (Simon and Garfunkel cover) (video)

BY Gregory AdamsPublished Nov 18, 2014

In addition to supporting Stay Gold, Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit having been serving up a fair share of cover songs lately. Following recent tributes to Jack White and R.E.M., the Söderberg have unveiled a tender redo of Simon & Garfunkel's "America."

A video for the cover acts as a tour-time travelogue, with the partnership seen hopping on buses, walking past marquees, strolling through festival grounds and more. With the tender pluck of an acoustic guitar and their siren-song harmonies, they approach folk legends' Simon and Garfunkel's lines of hitchhiking through Saginaw.

First Aid Kit's "America" arrives on a 10-inch release November 28, as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event.

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