One king's club is not the other. A few years before The Kings Of Leon claimed their place in the music world with boisterous rock, the Norwegian Kings Of Convenience explored the other end of the pop music spectrum. The brilliant one-liner with which they sold their whisper-soft folk pop - 'quiet is the new loud' - turned against them when the musical climate changed. Fortunately, they themselves
… remained the same. Although, where the songs from their first albums were still written in the private intimacy of the bedroom, the compositions of their third record Declaration Of Dependence took shape during the sound checks in large, empty concert halls. It explains the large amounts of reverberation in the recordings, as the band members Eirik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye explain in the liner notes. Which in their experience is probably an enormous development, the average listener will miss this beautiful, quiet record that is in every respect a logical continuation of its predecessors. (MS)more
