Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud (Music CD)
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Description:
Emerging in 2001 on a small wave of hype touting Norway as a new musical hotbed,
QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD was startling inits earnestness, even to ears that had
been softened by thelikes 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.
Track Listing:
1. Winning A Battle Losing The 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
7. Girl From Back Then
8. Leaning Against The Wall
9. Little Kids
10. Summer On The Westhill
11. Passenger
12. Parallel Lines
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