If we were writing this blog for Nuts or Zoo, this next sentence would probably make you, the hypothetical reader, go "phwoar", or some such; Next up are two teenage sisters from Sweden. Klara and Johanna Soderberg, aka First Aid Kit, aren't ever going to appear in either of those publications, however, because, well, they just wouldn't. Instead, they create fragile folk songs centred around lush harmonies and delicately plucked acoustic guitar. Lyrically, it's surprisingly depressing given the fact both of them have yet to see twenty, but hey, perhaps Sweden's just not that fun.
This is them (modelling the new knit wear range at C&A it seems):
This is a new track entitled 'Winter Is All Over You', taken from their new album, The Big Black and The Blue, which is out on the 25 January:
But this is perhaps their most famous moment, a stunning cover of Fleet Foxes' 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song' recorded in a forest. It's had over 1 million views, which is probably more than a video featuring two Swedish teenage sisters on a certain other website would get:
Lovely.
That period between Christmas and New Year is, essentially, meaningless. Hours pass by in a haze of food, drink and old Disney films and no-one can remember what day it is. During this period Musick heard a couple of songs by Broken Bells, aka producer Danger Mouse and that guy from The Shins. As with all Danger Mouse endeavours - be it producing for the likes of Gorillaz, The Rapture and Beck, or co-fronting Gnarls Barkley - the results have a vintage feel, as if some lost record from the early '70s had been found and remixed.
'The High Road' is the first single to be officially released from their debut album, which is out in March:
We've always been fans of knotty organ intros and this one is the best!
As 2010 begins it's slow descent, it's heart-warming that some things never change. With that in mind, we've decided to keep on going with our only regular feature, the hugely successful, New Musick Monday. For those of you who are new to Musick, we basically scour the internet (i.e. go on nme.com and check their weekly new releases page) and bring you all the details about three exciting bits of music. These are usually in the form of two albums and a single, but we have been know to mess with the formula, usually with pretty exciting results. So, who is on our first rundown of 2010?
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Contra by Vampire Weekend
It's strange that these four young men from New York can cause such rage in certain sections of the music press. Is it because they're intelligent? Or that they show off that intelligence? Is it their love of African music and the way they interpret it? Is it because they have a tendency to comes across as smug? Would we rather all our bands were stupid and arrogant? So many questions, and yet, in reality, they're a band that have made one very promising album of catchy, guitar-based pop and are now about to follow it up with another one that expands slightly on their sound without scaring the horses. They're perhaps not worth all this fretting, and yet at the same time are really very good and jolly well deserve the success that will come their way with Contra. This is a brilliantly tight run through of new single 'Cousins' on Letterman.
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Acolyte by Delphic
It is a lovely cover isn't it? This is the debut album by Delphic, who are three criminally serious young men from somewhere in the UK. They finished third on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll and have been tipped for big things by just about every publication under the sun. So, what do they sound like? Well, they're a little bit Bloc-Party-meets-Klaxons-meets-Cut-Copy-meets-Hot-Chip and the album is produced by Ewan Pearson who has twiddled knobs for people like The Rapture, M83 and Gwen Stefani. As with most debuts it's a little patchy, but tracks like 'Doubt' prove they know their way around a dance/rock hybrid.
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'Heaven Can Wait' by Charlotte Gainsbourg
The song with the amazing video gets it's UK release and what a lovely little ditty it is. Produced by Beck, and featuring the diminutive fellow on backing vocals, it's all gently rattling percussion and warm organ sounds. Gainsbourg's sweetly fragile vocals work well with Beck's only mildly more robust croon and it's enough to make you forget the dual horrors of Beck's love of Scientology and Gainsbourg's recent horror show in Antichrist.
Cough syrup-addicted rapper Lil Wayne is surely one of the most bonkers rappers around. Who else would decide to follow one of rap's best albums, Tha Carter III, with an album of rock-orientated tracks that sound like the kind of things Limp Bizkit would have shunned for being too bland? Rebirth, the album that has already become somewhat of a poisoned chalice, was originally due out in April 2009 and will now (possibly) see the light of day in July of this year. The only saving grace for Lil is that he'll be in prison when the whole debacle finally comes to an end.
This is a new track, 'On Fire', and it is, quite literally, the worst single of 2010 so far.
Guitar aside, how do we know Lil loves rock? He's wearing Converse of course.
Imagine if Sting was your Dad...just imagine, for one second, that Sting was your Dad. Not only is Sting your Dad, but Trudie Styler is your Mum and practically all anyone cares about now is that your Dad and Mum allegedly engage in hours and hours of tantric sex, possibly whilst you cry in the room next door.
This isn't imaginary for Coco Sumner (the spawn of one of those long evenings of coitus), who has decided to become a musician and goes by the moniker, I Blame Coco. Weirdly, and perhaps this is a reaction to her Dad being Sting or perhaps it's because she's not very good, but her name was nowhere on the Big in 2010 lists. This is her first single proper and it features the always incredibly amazingly fantastic, Robyn.
Either way you cut it, "I want to annoy / And I'm going to enjoy it", is a pretty good opening salvo.
As a little add to the last post, there's a new band (or duo, if you like) that are doing the rounds called Hurts (or HURTS, we're not sure where they stand on the whole capital letters conspiracy). Basically, for us, the jury's still out. Only one song has emerged, they haven't played live, they dress like the kind of people you see in certain areas of London (although they're from Manchester, so let's expand that to "certain areas of Britain") that make you think, "God, what an idiot", but secretly you're thinking, "how fucking cool are they". BUT, the one song that has emerged, entitled 'Wonderful Life', is really quite something in a stately, emotionless, '80s-were-amazing kind of way.
These are them:
This is the song:
Aren't they charismatic?
HAPPY 2010 MUSICK LOVERS!
Apologies for the time between posts, we spent the New Year in a drug-induced coma having stumbled upon a warehouse party in East London. Basically, all you need to know is the Police came, the guy will be out of hospital soon and yes, your inner most fears being played out on the inside of your eyelids like a movie for 48 hours is more terrifying than death itself. Ah, fun times.
So, let's kick this new decade off with another list shall we? This time, let Musick guide you through the next twelve months by picking out five new acts to keep an eye on. Haven't the BBC done something like this you say? And nearly every other respectable publication this side of the NME? Well, yes, but there ain't no party like Musick party, right? Right.
Les Corps Mince de Francoise
Three Finnish beauties with a difficult French moniker, make childish, hyperactive dance-pop to make you smile. 
Listen to: 'Something Golden'
Francis and the Lights
Slick, Prince-inspired funk from idiosyncratic white soul boy. The dancing in the video below is not recommended to those with weak knees.
Listen to: 'The Top'
The Drums
Obvious really, but no less valid. Their debut EP, Summertime, is one of the best things released in recent memory. Sun-kissed melodies + infinite sadness = The Drums.
Listen to: 'I Felt Stupid'
Theophilus London
We've written about him before, but having seen him live recently we're even more excited about his debut. Fusing vintage hip-hop with icy electro, expect Theophilus London to appear in a lot of magazines and sell very little, but still be amazing.
Listen to: 'Humdrum Town'
Marina & The Diamonds
Born in Greece, raised in Wales and as feisty as pop stars are allowed to be these days, Marina makes opulent pop songs overflowing with piano, jaunty melodies and a clever, knowing centre. 
Listen to: 'Hollywood'
WARNING: OTHER POP STARS ARE AVAILABLE.
