King of Convenience????

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Are they any good? I hear good things about them?

― simona, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, do you?

― powertonevolume, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Better than Simon and Garfunkel.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd imagine there is going to be a stream of ugly invective on this thread shortly, so let me get my positive comments out of the way near the top. I think they're perfectly okay. The harmonies are nice enough, the music is pleasant, and it's a good alternative to all the loud indie rawk that I love but which doesn't always fit my mood. Are they genius? Nah. Are they unexpected? Sure, usually I associate Norway with...uh, death metal, Turbonegro or Bel Canto. It's nice enough.

Now, let the invective begin:

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What, no a-ha as a comparison point? I gather they even cover "Manhattan Skyline!"

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the songs are good. they are a bit polite, and very twee. I think the remix album is as good or better than Quiet is the New Loud, which silly title aside is pretty decent. The S/T on kindercore has many of the same songs.

― g, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Very good first album. Acoustic songwriter music with melancholic lyrics a little bit like Nick Drake. Nice melodies. Btw they are called Kings of Convenience.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lovely tunes

― Daniel, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite a many artists make Kings of Convenience look more than a bit lacking. I'd investigate I Am Kloot, Turin Brakes, Ben & Jason, & Neil Halstead before I'd bother with those coy kings.

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Turin Brakes are AWFUL! staggeringly bad!

this old thread about Kings of Convenience is much funnier.

the Kings of Convenience remix album has the wonderful Fourtet on, the rest is a little so-so

― michael, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GReat stuff. I love them. I agree that I am Kloot and Turin are worthy too. I prefer the KOC to both those though. Thought I am Kloot sounds too much like acoustic OASIS (which I hate).

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and so ladytron remixed KOC and they live happily ever after...

she irons his shirts now

― erik, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

buy the remixes cd not the the original. it's f*ckin ace.

― piscesboy, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got it wrong. Don't even know the first album. I was thinking of Quiet Is the New loud. There is a new one out which Pitchfork does not seem to like. Though that doesn't mean a thing as they didn't like Quiet neither. They rated the first s/t album highest. Anyone heard it? Or the new one?

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex, the first album has several songs that were also on Quiet, and the ones that weren't are similar. It's worth having except for the overlap. The new one is the remix album.

― Curt, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

new album out in june. i am excited. i am also a nerd.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kingsofconvenience.com/cover.jpg

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

and so ladytron remixed KOC and they live happily ever after...
she irons his shirts now

-- erik (waterboy...) (webmail), February 20th, 2002 1:00 AM. (link)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

there's a line, missing.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

more indie pop bands with prominent samba influence, please.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

dot to dot

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

oh, you meant bands that are influenced by samba.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

oh, you meant bands, that influenced samba.

I am listening to KoC at length for the first time ever!

I think I was put off, before, by knowing one of them, in the old days. Now I am just trying to hear the music, in its own right.

I think maybe the 2nd LP is an improvement, on the first?

― the pinefox, Sunday, 14 September 2008 09:50 (seventeen years ago)

Nah, 'Riot' has got some great songs, but 'Quiet' is way, way better. More coherent, like a long moving story from beginning to end. Not a single mediocre song on there. Plus 'Little Kids'.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

i saw them support low at manchester academy seven or eight years back. they made the whole audience sit down on the floor during the set and hushed people who were talking. it was a bit like watching a visiting christian folk band at a school assembly.

― internet person, Sunday, 14 September 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

Lovely tunes

― Daniel, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00

tho

― internet person, Sunday, 14 September 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

Good tracks, I think:

Winning a Battle, Losing the War (really poignant, the unrequited love feels quite real)

Toxic Girl (good enough; melodic, harmonic, varied, even the lead guitar keeps changing)

Manhattan Skyline (not a bad adaptation)

Homesick (superb, in a way, making the most of the ESL earnestness)

Misread (great piano and electric axe combos)

I'd Rather Dance With You (the lyric is perhaps dumb again, but the whole effect is pretty compelling)

― the pinefox, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

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