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Kings of Convenience

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Label: Source Release Date: 07/06/2004

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gdobson by Gareth Dobson May 31st, 2004

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.

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