- Kings Of Convenience【 6 albums 70 lyrics 】
- Kings of Convenience is an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway. Consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, the musical group is known for their delicate tunes, calming voices, and intricate and subtle guitar melodies. Øye and Bøe both compose and sing the songs.
Øye and Bøe were both born in 1975 (Øye on November 21 and Bøe on October 25) and have known each other since they met in the same class at school. Their first musical collaboration was a comedic rap about a teacher. At sixteen, they played together in the band Skog ('forest') with two other friends, releasing one EP, Tom Tids Tale, before breaking up and later forming the Kings duo.
The duo was signed to the American label Kindercore after appearing in European festivals during the summer of 1999. After a spell living in London in 2001, they released their debut album Quiet Is the New Loud. The album was produced by Coldplay producer Ken Nelson. The album was very successful and even lent its name to a small movement of musicians in the pop underground (including acoustic contemporaries such as Turin Brakes) which took Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian and Simon & Garfunkel as their inspiration and focused on more subtle melodies and messages.
Versus, an album of remixes of tracks from Quiet Is the New Loud, came out shortly after. After this breakthrough year, not much was heard from the band. Øye spent the next few years living in Berlin and doing solo material, releasing music under the DJ Kicks series as well as a solo album titled Unrest. He also had a side project named The Whitest Boy Alive.
It was not until 2004 that the Kings' follow-up Riot on an Empty Street was released. The video made for 'I'd Rather Dance With You,' the second single from the album, topped MTV's European list as the best music video of 2004. The album also featured contributions by Feist.
In January 2008 the band played concerts in the Northern Norwegian cities of Tromsø, Svolvær and Bodø, and Swedish city Umeå along with a concert in August in Stockholm. The band then toured North America, Latin America and Europe, including stops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Detroit; Latin American stops in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Brazil and Chile, where they performed in Santiago with local musician Javiera Mena, who later opened for them in Spain and Portugal. European stops include Italy, Switzerland and Spain. On some of their American tour stops they appeared with the band Franklin for Short who joined them on stage for a few rousing numbers.
Their third album, called Declaration of Dependence, was released on October 20, 2009.
In June 2012, the band performed at the Primavera Sound festivals in both Barcelona and Porto.
In July 2016, the band announced they had enough raw material for a fourth album which they will begin recording in the fall.
In 2017, Eirik released an album entitled 'Analog Dance Music' with his new band Kommode. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Declaration of Dependence
2009-10
1.24-25
2.Mrs Cold
3.Me In You
4.Boat Behind
5.Rule My World
6.My Ship Isn't Pretty
7.Renegade8.Power Of Not Knowing
9.Peacetime Resistance
10.Freedom And Its Owner
11.Riot On An Empty Street
12.Second To Numb
13.Scars On Land -
Riot On An Empty Street[沈溺在空曠大街]
2004
1.Homesick
2.Misread
3.Cayman Islands
4.Stay Out Of Trouble
5.Know-How*
6.Sorry Or Please7.Love Is No Big Truth
8.I'd Rather Dance With You
9.Live Long
10.Surprise Ice
11.Gold In The Air Of Summer
12.The Build-Up -
Quiet Is The New Loud[沈默是金]
2001-02
1.Winning A Battle Losing The War
2.Toxic Girl
3.Singing Softly To Me
4.I Dont Know What I Can Save You From
5.Failure
6.The Weight Of My Words7.The Girl From Back Then
8.Leaning Against The Wall
9.Little Kids
10.Summer On The Westhill
11.The Passenger
12.Parallel Lines -
Versus
2001
1.Gold For The Price Of Silver -
Live At Radio Deejay
1.24-25 (Live Acoustic Session)
2.Winning a Battle, Losing the War (Live Acoustic Session)3.Boat Behind (Live Acoustic Session)
4.Love Is No Big Truth (Live Acoustic Session) -
Miscellaneous
1.The Eternal
2.Manhattan Skyline
3.I'd Rather Dance With You (Radio Mix)
4.Misread (Acoustic Session)
5.Freedom & Its Owner
6.I'd Rather Dance With You (The After Dark Parliamix)
7.Suprise Ice
8.Know How
9.Free Fallin' (Live)
10.Envoy
11.Into The Ring Of Fire
12.English House
13.Brave New World
14.'Winning A Battle, Losing The War'15.An English House
16.Leaning Against The Wall (Evil Tordivel Upbeat Remake)
17.Parr-Ã-Pluie
18.Until You Understand
19.Days I Had With You
20.Cayman Island
21.I Dont Know What I Can Save You From (Royskopp remix)
22.Free Fallin'
23.Failure (Radio Edit)
24.I'd Rather Dance With You (Orion's Belte Mix)
25.Know-How (radio mix)
26.Weight of My Words
27.Know-How (feat. Feist)
28.Little Kids (Ladytron remix)
【Correction of errors in the album information】