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KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, promo2
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by Gareth Dobson
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 07/06/2004
  • Label: Source
Over three years on from their sumptuous debut album ‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, Norway’s finest acoustic exports, Kings Of Convenience return with nary a glance sideways at what else has been going on in the meantime.

Which is of course, wonderful. On a song as sparse as the hair on a baby’s bottom, the gently clipped guitars and sprinkles of piano contrive to paint a perfect, hypnotic sound on which Erland Oye lays his well-worn words of love and un-understanding of the female world. Then, among the gentle Robert Kirby-esque strings, comes the words “How come no one told me / all throughout history / the loneliest people / were the ones who spoke the truth?”, and we all collapse in a heap of gentle yearning for the two smartest boys this side of Belle and Sebastian. Lovely.

  • Kings of Convenience 8 / 10

Kings of Convenience - Misread

Can't wait to hear it. I think the best thing they've done is their remix album, so far, 'Verses'. Pure genius.

Kings of Convenience - Misread

great song, saw the video on MTV2 on 120 minutes.

Kings of Convenience - Misread

Hmmm. The video has Erlend Oye doing his 'self-consciously wacky' thing, but still a great song.

Kings of Convenience - Misread

wonderful song! ... one of the most beautiful guitar-only music I have heard in ages ...

Actually, the whole album is mesmerizing! If you are in need of some really wonderful, touching songs .. very slow, but absorbing.. then, get "Riot On An Empty Street" :)

Kings of Convenience - Misread

it's just so beautiful. It breaks my heart.

Kings of Convenience - Misread

actually, the lead vocals and almost all instruments on this single are by eirik glambek boe, the other guy, not erlend.

but agreed that it's a great song. X

Kings of Convenience

Actually listening to the 'Quiet is the New Loud' album at the moment, Singing Softly to me and The Weight of My Words are fantastic, but 'Riot on an Empty Street' has to be the best, really beautiful songs on that one- Homesick, Cayman Islands and Misread being just a few.