Riot on an Empty Street
Price: $39.99
Artist: Kings of Convenience
- Homesick
- Misread
- Cayman Islands
- Stay Out of Trouble
- Know How
- Sorry or Please
- Love Is No Big Truth
- I d Rather Dance With You
- Live Long
- Surprise Ice
- Gold in the Air of Summer
- The Build-Up
Their second album, Riot On An Empty Street picks up where Quiet Is The New Loud left off. Recorded over the last six months in Bergen, with periodic visits from ex-patriot Erlend - Riot contains more complex arrangements tWith You , Know How, Love Is No Big Truth or first single Misread , every track sounds like an old friend coming home to you. It s quite style schizophrenic, adds Eirik We re each inspired by different things so it can be a little confusing, but that seems to be a modern phenomenon, people don t know what genre to put themselves in. I m looking forward to everyone saying it s not as good as the first album, laughs Erlend, It s funny because two of the songs are from 1998, so it s us, covering us from five years ago, he adds. The Kings were joined in the studio by hotly tipped Canadian songstress Feist, who appears on two of the albums twelve tracks, the bossa-fuelled Know How where she assists Eirik, and the album s closing track The Build Up - where she duets with Erlend in what is one of the Kings most stark and beautifully emotive tracks, a rare moment captured in time. Both were big fans of her much-fabled Red Demos and she melds perfectly amidst them, bringing an air of added suspense and emotion and of course her majestic voice. Her voice is amazing, gushes Erlend, I m very proud of the Build Up , for the first time ever we managed to do something spontaneous, Feist wrote the words an hour before she sung them, and it doesn t sound like anything else we ve ever done. So there you have it. Kings Of Convenience - 2004. A therapist and a superstar singing DJ, an odd couple, but still the best (old) new acoustic band in the world. Riot On An Empty Street, forms their very own republic of two, principality of Eirik and Erlend. A great place to visit again and again.
omg! - This is such a contagious album! I couldnt stop listening for days! I still listen to it Qam. Love them !!!!
Feel like a rest? - The solution is pretty easy. Get yourself this album and kick it back on the couch with the top on the lap. Sippin on some oj. Life seems 10 times easier when you re listening to this album.Oozing voices and calm music that give you the philosophical thrill of a lifetime.
luvley - This album soothed my ears like a warm car seat after a cool swim. I picked it up cheap from a bargain bin as i de heard one track off the radio which had made my ears prick. The album has some dull songs. Forgiven thanks to the really great tracks which stand the test of repeated plays. A lovely melding of brushes and fingerstyle guitar, piano, violins and upright bass, blessed with beautiful harmonic vocals. It has a folk, bossa, swing feel. Totally dancable tunes you can chill with.
Soft, almost-Acoustic Rock... A great discovery! - Really know nothing about these Scandinavian guys. I heard that they re quite famous in their native country. Notoriously and obviously influenced by Classic Pop stars as Simon & Garfunkel, a little bit of Cat Stevens and perhaps Donovan. However the result is such a soft and nice music, excellent for a quiet car ride, a lazy Sunday morning with a good cup of coffee and the news while lying in your most comfortable couch, or even sharing a special moment with your loved one... A good choice for a nice Christmas gift!
A WINTERS GREATEST ALBUM - THIS IS THE KIND OF MUSIC YOU PUT ON WITH A CUP OF COFFEE AND SIT WATCHING THE SO CALLED LIFE YOU WERE CALLED TO.IN SHORT IT IS A WONDERFUL ALBUM.
