Origin: Bergen, Norway
Decades: 1990's and 2000's
Bergen, Norway-based indie-pop duo Kings of Convenience teamed singer/guitarist Erik Glambek Boe and guitarist Erlend Oye. After first earning notice thanks to a series of acclaimed European festival appearances during the summer of 1999, the twosome signed to American label Kindercore to issue their lovely eponymous debut the following spring. Quiet Is the New Loud was issued in early 2001on Astralwerks. The album used many of the same tracks from the Kindercore release but re-ordered them and replaced a f... Read More