Kings Of Convenience – Quiet Is The New Loud
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| 1 |
Winning A Battle, Losing The War
Cello – Matt McGeever |
3:51 | ||
| 2 | Toxic Girl | 3:07 | ||
| 3 |
Singing Softly To Me
Trumpet – Ben Dumville |
3:01 | ||
| 4 |
I Don't Know What I Can Save You From
Cello – Ian Bracken |
4:34 | ||
| 5 |
Failure
Cello – Ian Bracken Drums – Tarjei Strøm Lead Vocals – Erlend Øye |
3:31 | ||
| 6 | The Weight Of My Words | 4:04 | ||
| 7 | The Girl From Back Then | 2:28 | ||
| 8 |
Leaning Against The Wall
Cello – Ian Bracken |
3:16 | ||
| 9 | Little Kids | 3:43 | ||
| 10 |
Summer On The Westhill
Cello – Ian Bracken |
4:30 | ||
| 11 | The Passenger | 3:10 | ||
| 12 |
Parallel Lines
Written-By – Daisy Simons |
5:11 |
Companies etc
- Distributed By – Vital (2)
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar [Nylon String], Drums, Piano, Electric Guitar – Eirik Glambek Bøe
- Design [Sleeve] – Dominic Thomas (4), Kings Of Convenience
- Engineer – Ken Nelson (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 12), Morten Arnetvedt (tracks: 2, 5)
- Engineer [Assistant] – Andrea Wright (2) (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 12)
- Lead Vocals – Eirik Glambek Bøe (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 12)
- Mastered By – Chris Ludd
- Mixed By – Ken Nelson
- Photography By – Paulo Sutch
- Producer – Ken Nelson, Kings Of Convenience, Morten Arnetvedt (tracks: 2, 5)
- Recorded By – Ken Nelson, Morten Arnetvedt (tracks: 2, 5)
- Recorded By [Assistant], Mixed By [Assistant] – Andrea Wright (2)
- Steel Guitar [String], Electric Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals [Harmony Vocals] – Erlend Øye
- Written-by, Performer, Arranged By [Strings] – Kings Of Convenience
Notes
This Album was recorded and mixed at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool on a Studer 24-track analogue 2inch tape machine. It was then mixed to 1/2 inch tape through a Neve Legend mixing desk. Tracks 2 & 5 were originally recorded and edited at Ornkli Studios in Bergen, Norway. Further recordings and the final mixing of these tracks were done in Parr Street. Mastered at Abbey Road.
"Singing Softly To Me" and "The Girl From Back Then" are parts 1 & 2 of the same song.
(P) 2001 The Copyright in this Sound Recording is owned by Mawlaw 388 Ltd T/A Source (UK).
(C) 2001 Mawlaw Ltd Trading as Source (UK).
All songs published by BMG Music Publishing.
Made in EU.
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| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet Is The New Loud (CD, Album + CD, Single, Ltd) | Source, Source | SOURCD019, 7243 5 29072 2 9 | UK & Europe | 2001 | ||
| Quiet Is The New Loud (CD, Album, Promo) | Source | SOURCDP 019 | UK | 2001 | ||
| Quiet Is The New Loud (LP, Album) | Source | SOURLP019 | UK | 2001 | ||
| Quiet Is The New Loud (CD, Album, Promo) | Source, Source | SOURCDP019, VISA 6292 | Europe | 2001 | ||
| Quiet Is The New Loud (CD, Album) | Astralwerks | ASW 29072-2 | US | 2001 |
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Reviews & Discussion
Absolutely gorgeous. Though the Kings of Convenience's first album is not "electronic" in the strictest sense (or in any sense), there's still no denying the utter beauty of this album. The first track on the album, "Winning a Battle, Losing the War," is my favorite, full of shimmering guitars and pensive lyrics; the track doesn't explodes as much as it blossoms right at the end. "Singing Softly to Me" throws in some trumpet to emphasize the call-and-response of the song, while "I Don't Know What I Can Save You From" adds a mournful cello towards the end, as if underlining the futility of the situation. The haunting melodies and the powerful lyrics get under your skin and stick in your head. An underlying melancholy lies at the heart of some of the outstanding tracks like "The Weight of My Words," "Little Kids," and the powerful closing tracks, "The Passenger" and "Parallel Lines." The album titles says it all: QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD.
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My first thoughts were that it was perhaps some undiscovered/obscure act from the 70's (there was nothing in the production to suggest otherwise), so I was most surprised to discover that this was very much a contemporary recording, as by that time I was totally despairing that popular music had anything fresh or different to offer. Sure, it has shades of Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, and Crosby Stills & Nash about it (which isn't a bad thing of course), but unlike said artists, in my view these guys' output is consistently listenable with their own unique spin (that perhaps comes through emanating from a part of the world not renowned for its musical output).
There are very few albums I've heard that I can justify listening to from beginning to end without skipping tracks, but this is one of them, or at least the nearest it gets for me (perhaps one or two songs could have been developed a bit more, but I'm a hard person to please). Highlights range from the comparatively rhythmically upbeat "Toxic Girl" to the introspective picking of "The Weight Of My Words", but the wonderful conclusion is a masterful triptych that should be heard as programmed. Smouldering, wistful, melancholic, elegiac - describe it how you like but as far as acoustic pop is concerned in my opinion it doesn't get much better than this.