Biography

Norway-based indie pop duo Kings of Convenience teamed singer/guitarist Erik Glambek Bøe with guitarist Erlend Øye. After first earning notice during 1999, Kings of Convenience signed to American label Kindercore to issue their lovely eponymous debut the following spring. (Quiet Is the New Loud, issued in 2001, used many of the same tracks but re-ordered them and replaced a few with newer songs.) After a three-year layoff during which Øye recorded a solo album and gained some renown 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. ~ Jason Ankeny

Top Tracks

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• Failure

• Gold For The Price Of Silver

• Homesick

• I Don't Know What I Can Save You From

• Leaning Against The Wall

• Misread

• Mrs. Cold

• Riot On An Empty Street

• Rule My World

• Surprise Ice

• Toxic Girl

• Weight Of My Words

• Winning A Battle, Losing The War

Discography

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• Declaration of Dependence

  Mawlaw 388 / Astralwerks / Mawlaw 388 / Source UK

  2009

• Riot on an Empty Street

  Astralwerks / Astralwerks/Source 360/EMI

  2004

• Versus

  Source UK / Astralwerks

  2001

• Quiet Is the New Loud

  Source UK / Astralwerks

  2001

• Kings of Convenience

  Kindercore

  2000