Mining the current, much-loved countrified folk genre of contemporaries Swell Season, Fleet Foxes and Bright Eyes, adorable Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara release their second album, The Lion’s Roar, adding an ethereal Nordic quality to the genre with their haunting voices and storyteller’s lyrics. From their melancholy ode to Emmylou Harris and love, to the gorgeous, perfectly pitched, bubbly track 'Blue', the sisters harmonise over slide guitars in 'This Old Routine', then enchant with the simple, vocally rich 'To a Poet', all made to leave you swinging happily on your front porch.

Fiona Hardy is from Readings Carlton