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中 文 名 Kings of Convenience
类 型 组合
国 籍 挪威
代表作品 Failure、Toxic Girl
艺人资料
两个挪威大男孩Eirik Glambek Boe和Erlend Oye及两把传统吉他组成了双人乐团Kings Of Convenience。他们一出道，便被NME推崇美誉为「新民谣运动英雄」。Kings Of Convenience清新完美的二部合声如同一股清流般轻轻柔柔地流过人们冰封沉疾已久的心；彷佛呼吸著清新舒适的空气，在唯美浪漫、清新脱俗的乐章里，让自己享有短暂片刻的恬静。 在Chill-out风潮愈演愈烈今天，Royksopp可以在其唱片厂牌Wall of Sound低调宣传的情况下冒出头来，并如此快抢占欧洲市场，可见其魅力确不可小觊。同一时期的还有Kings of Convenience，同是来自挪威这个北欧小国，不过风格却是大相径庭。一张颇Easy-listening的Quiet Is New Loud令他们崭露头角，之后的混音专辑Versus请来众多电音界好友拔刀相助。其中当然包括Royksopp混的I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From，延续一贯的漫不经心，不过细看介绍，竟然还有他们家乡Sandviksfjellet山顶的风的录音。
2000年推出处女同名专辑《The Kings of Convenience》。
2001年发行第一张正式专辑《Quiet Is the New Loud》。
2002年发行第二张专辑《Versus》。
他们的第三张正式专辑《Declaration of Dependence》，在2009年10月20日发行。
2012年6月，乐队在巴塞罗那和波尔图的 Primavera Sound festivals上表演。
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.
