“Angel” by First Aid Kit

"Angel" was the song that broke First Aid Kit's hiatus: Johanna and Klara Söderberg released it in June 2022 alongside the announcement of Palomino, their fifth studio album and their first since Ruins in 2018, which Columbia put out that November. The duo called it a hopeful song for strange times, about accepting people you don't always agree with and going easier on yourself, and they wanted it to hit big while still sounding fragile, something to cry and dance to at once.

Daniel Bengtson wrote it with them, produced and recorded it, and played acoustic guitar, bass, piano, mellotron and synthesizer himself. Kyle Crane plays drums and percussion, Goran Kajfeš adds trumpet, a string section of violins, violas and cellos fills out the room, and Tom Elmhirst mixed it.

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