First Aid Kit: Ruins review – gleaming harmonic shapes

(Columbia)Sweden’s First Aid Kit have always been a bittersweet pleasure. When they first emerged in 2008, the Söderberg sisters’ poised campfire harmonies ached in inverse proportion to their tender years (18 and 15). Their third album, Stay Gold, successfully sold the Swedes’ folk-pop back to the US, albeit garnering Abba comparisons.On their fourth effort, First Aid Kit sound more hurt than ever, if just as mellifluous. Johanna and Klara Söderberg wrote the album w