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First Aid Kit will release new album Who By Fire on March 26th.
The Swedish group grew up around Leonard Cohen s music, and were left deeply saddened by his death.
Hosting two special evenings in March 2017 at Stockholm s Royal Dramatic Theater, the band reinterpreted the Bard s work.
Those evenings are captured on Who By Fire , a theatrical staging of Leonard Cohen s songs, poems, and letters, alongside an eight person band, strings, two actors, and a huge choir.
Re-visiting the tapes, the resulting album lands on March 26th and it s a salute to Cohen, while also acting as a creative statement in its own right.
Who By Fire, arriving March 26. It captures their performances at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm in March of 2017 in 20 tracks. According to the press release, it’s a “theatrical staging of Leonard Cohen’s songs, poems, and letters.”
The first single is Cohen’s hit “Suzanne,” which came out in 1967 and has become one of the most-covered songs in Cohen’s catalog. Following Cohen’s November 2016 death, First Aid Kit shared: “… If you ever put a guitar in our hands and ask us to sing, we will always play ‘Suzanne.’ When we heard it for the first time we were transfixed.”