VIDEO / A FAVORITE FROM FIVE YEARS AGO
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Kings of Convenience
“I’d Rather Dance With You”
Riot on an Empty Street
Original release date: June 21, 2004
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June 18, 2004:
It’s three years since the Kings of Convenience released their debut album, Quiet is the New Loud. As references to Simon & Garfunkel and Nick Drake became commonplace, Eirik Glambek Boe and Erlend Oye tiptoed away to Ibiza. Having given clubbers the most graceful of comedowns, Boe returned to university in Norway, while Oye made a solo album and immersed himself in dance culture. This new album picks up exactly where the Kings left off, with warm melodies and exquisitely detailed ruminations. The harmonies still glow, especially on the evocative “Gold in the Air of Summer,” and Canadian chanteuse Feist on the jazzy “Know How” adds some bluesy soul to the sparse sound. “I’ll make you laugh by acting like a guy who sings,” they say on the swinging “I’d Rather Dance With You,“ their awkwardness as bittersweet as ever.