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Quiet Is The New Loud (CD)

By: Kings Of Convenience (Artist)

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Kings Of Convenience Artist Snapshot:

The Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience made a splash in their own low-key way with their 2001 album QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD. Their Simon & Garfunkel harmonies and gentle, acoustic ballads got the UK press all hot and bothered about a "New Acoustic Movement." While that didn't exactly blossom, the Kings turned out to be one of the most substantive groups of the early 2000's, and their strong 2004 follow-up album, RIOT ON AN EMPTY STREET, exemplified their staying power.

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DISC 1 for Quiet Is The New Loud (CD) Album By Kings Of Convenience (Artist)
1   Winning A Battle, Losing A War
2   Toxic Girl
3   Singing Softly To Me
4   I Don't Know What I Can Save You From
5   Failure
6   Weight Of My Words, The
7   Girl From Back Then, The
8   Leaning Against The Wall
9   Little Kids
10   Summer On The Westhill
11   Passenger, The
12   Parallel Lines
 

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Review

Q (3/01, p.107) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Spry and limpid....there's lashings of charm in the way the songs unfurl, touching upon an array of ethereal womenfolk and ending prettily..."
Alternative Press (5/01, p.82) - 3 out of 5 - "...Though limp-wristed stuff, it's undeniably beautiful..."
Magnet (4-5/01, p.79) - "...There's nothing here that we haven't heard before...but it's been a long time since it's been done this well. Taking their cue from mid-60s bossa nova, KOC reach back for this mix of innocence and romance, making it come alive - and, even better, believable..."
NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #33 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".
NME (Magazine) (1/27/01, p.35) - 8 out of 10 - "...Forges triumph from stolidly primitivist values by pulling the same soft-focus folk tricks that anguished men on stolls have done for the past 40 years, only 'better'....[With] a tangible love [of influences] that's genuinely moving..."

Title Note

Kings Of Convenience: Eirik Glambek Boe (vocals, electric & nylon string guitars, piano, drums); Erlend Oye (vocals, electric & steel string guitars, piano, drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Ian Bracken, Matt McGeever (cello); Ben Dumville (trumpet); Tarjei Strom (drums).

Producers: Ken Nelson, Kings Of Convenience.

Recorded at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, England.

Emerging in 2001 on a small wave of hype touting Norway as a new musical hotbed, QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD was startling in its earnestness, even to ears that had been softened by the likes of Belle & Sebastian. Where that Scottish band tempers its twee-ness with clever, winking wordplay, Erlend Oye and Eirik Glambek Boe are more akin to a latter-day Simon & Garfunkel or a couple of Nick Drakes who are lucky to have found each other.

Disarmingly sensitive, poetic tracks such as "Parallel Lines" ("What's the immaterial substance that envelops two/That one perceives as hunger and the other as food") are sung by the duo in honeyed harmonies with a pleasantly laid-back delivery. Oye and Boe eschew drums on all but two tracks (upbeat highlights "Toxic Girl" and "Failure"), simply using layered guitars and the occasional string, piano, or trumpet flourish to accent the hushed power of their songs. The overall effect is one of bedroom introspection, well suited to their nostalgic, inward-looking lyrics.

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