First Aid Kit - The Big Black & The Blue

If you crossed the Indigo Girls with Joanna Newsom and then made them Swedish, you might end up with something like First Aid Kit. The 'Swedish' element isn't merely a detail - for whatever reason, a lot of pop (or, in this case, folk) singers coming out of the country seem to share a certain timbre and enunciation (and, of course, accent) - but the main musical style from which they draw is squarely American, namely the folk/mountain tradition that still holds such fascination for our (or at least my) modern ears, and they do it well, too.