MeterSometimes communication will be interrupted and it is not clear whether it will resume. Especially for those who are important to you, and vice versa, it’s hard to understand-but at some point it may exceed the point of return, and suddenly it’s a wonderful seven years or more, from Unexpected things turned into a bad fairy tale in real life.
The possibility that the Norwegian songwriter duo from Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe will release a new album called Kings of Convenience is already a fairytale distance. Even the request of one of the two people on the Bergen scene at the end of the world can only bring a fairy tale answer, in short: the album has actually been completed for many years, but it has not yet been completed.
Now it’s finished-it looks and sounds like a fairy tale that’s resurrected, but it’s not bad. On the cover of “Peace or Love”, these two Norwegians, who are obviously not getting old, sit on a chessboard, just like their 2004 “Empty Street Riot”, which became a standard work of a new music genre: Norwegian wave Sanova.
Step by step, they combined with his songs, in chord progression, plucking patterns, two-part singing, and minimalist production; it was as if they just wanted to continue writing some works. Therefore, if you have listened to the earlier song “Know-How” back and forth, “Angel” with a bouncing bass line will sound very familiar. The first single “Rocky Trail” starts with “One more time”, which sounds like a continuation of the story of a lone canoeist from the “Cayman Islands” at that time. He has now reached the Rocky Land.
Feist is here again
You can almost say: The Kings of Covenience only plays a variation on a song, as some poets say, they basically only wrote a poem. In popular music of the past two decades, this can be compared with the songwriter Jack Johnson, for whom the rhythmic beat pattern on the guitar has become an obvious trademark. When he deviated from it, it immediately ceased to be so good and it became chaotic.
Norwegians make no mistake: even the collaboration with Canadian singer Feist continues here seamlessly, as if she never left: the folk song “Love Is A Lonely Thing” and the parlor dance “Catholic Country”, the following is very The subtle hip-hop grooves subtly blend into the background.
However, Norwegian Bossa’s basic emotions, however, how could it be otherwise, are often at the limit of what the heart can bear: for example, the deeply sad “brush my hair” roughly has Hank Cochran’s 60s Severe and painful tone song “Let the world disappear”. To be honest, it portrays the signs of depression by asking the following questions: Why comb your hair, and why wake up when your loved one is away?
This music is above everything
Anyone who has listened to “Comb My Hair” should no longer see any reason to continue ordinary daily life. This music is above all else. It may be dangerous. If there is a warning notice, because more cultural products or newspaper articles are now provided, because violence or other dangerous content is described, the label “warning, which may cause extreme depression” will be affixed here.
This result-in addition to the recently proposed aesthetic result-has an ethical reason to maintain the concept of the album: such a song can actually only be justified in the context in which it is suspended between more encouraging supplementary clips. of. If you don’t allow painful music to be comforting, at least they have been given a “fever”-or the bounce song “Washing Machine”, which brings wisdom that is no longer twenty years-olds: simply put everything away Pull out and wash.
