Kings of Convenience

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Bergen, Norway

Kings of Convenience are a music duo formed in Bergen, Norway, playing a style that features acoustic instrumental playing and their two calm voices. The band consists of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe. They met as children at a geography competition. They are known for their delicate tunes, calming voices, and intricately subtle guitar melodies.
Erlend currently lives in Berlin and Eirik in Bergen.

After first earning notice thanks to a series of acclaimed European festival appearances during the summer of 1999, the twosome signed to American label Kindercore to issue their lovely eponymous debut the following spring. Quiet Is the New Loud was issued in early 2001 on Astralwerks. The album used many of the same tracks from the Kindercore release but re-ordered them and replaced a few with newer songs. The remix album Versus followed later in the year and featured remixes by artists as diverse as Ladytron, avid Whitaker and Four Tet. After a three year layoff during which Øye recorded a solo album, 2003’s Unrest, and gained some reknown as an electronica DJ while Bøe worked on finishing up his psychology degree, the pair teamed up again for the recording and release of 2004’s excellent Riot on an Empty Street.

Erlend Øye has released some solo material and is also a member of The Whitest Boy Alive.

1	Misread full track	3,993
2	I'd Rather Dance With You full track	3,627
3	Homesick full track	3,021
4	Cayman Islands full track	2,981
5	Love Is No Big Truth full track	2,433
6	Stay Out of Trouble full track	2,296
7	Toxic Girl full track	2,225
8	Gold in the Air of Summer full track	2,164
9	Live Long full track	2,163
10	Sorry or Please full track	2,162
11	Failure full track	1,938
12	I Don't Know What I Can Save You From full track	1,917
13	Singing Softly to Me full track	1,684
14	The Girl From Back Then full track	1,660
15	Winning a Battle, Losing the War full track	1,638

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keptblue wrote:
4 hours ago

kings of convenience are AMAZING! if you love them you would like http://www.extlabs.com/yourinfamousharp/

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OHkelsey wrote:
yesterday morning

Lovely, <3

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dollywall wrote:
Friday morning

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Aprilar wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Hello! Hola! Salut everyone! If You love good vocal and beautiful music, You should like this french artist. His name is Daniel Levi. Just listen to him! http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Daniel+Levi

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Aprilar wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Привет всем любителям хорошей французской музыки! Хочу представить вам одного замечательного французского исполнителя. Итак, знакомьтесь: Даниэль Леви http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Daniel+Levi

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caaapsLOCK wrote:
Tuesday morning

brilliant.

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gabrielbaquit wrote:
7 days ago

versus is the best cd ever!

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alondrasilvam wrote:
last month

awesomeeeeeeenessssssssssssssssssssss

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koziolek27 wrote:
last month

Cayman Islands... Damn brilliant...

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Tomrawrr wrote:
last month

holy shit, biggest band i've never heard about?

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philthybass wrote:
last month

Brilliant! I love the kings!!

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HighTides wrote:
last month

Gold in the Air of Summer is perhaps the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

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gEEEERa wrote:
last month

monkey swallows the universe, raz ohara and the odd orchestra

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marzuki1 wrote:
last month

Does anyone know any similar bands? The "similar artists" last.fm recommends isn't really accurate this time.

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lunoliss wrote:
last month

in mex they give us the best concert of the year with the moctezuma´s revange jajajajaja

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SSpiegel wrote:
last month

Kings of Convenience rocked the Flow Festival in Helsinki on the 15th of August! I teared up when they started to play, I never imagined I would ever see them live. Now I'd travel to the ends of the world to see them again. Erlend and Eirik, you rock my socks!

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ryum wrote:
last month

Tell me about ONE song from KoC that isn't great.

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K84u wrote:
last month

I adore this band!!!

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Yours_E wrote:
last month

Great Band! Amazing! I'm dying for a new album indeed! They played a few songs from new album at a concert in Moscow last Sunday.. It was great!! But i think... it will be long before we can hear this album =(

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nerdypinguin wrote:
last month

little kids is my favourite song :)

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