Peace Or Love
After a 12-year hiatus, the Norwegian duo returns with an especially airbrushed take on easy-listening pop. At their best, the Kings sound deceptively effortless, but the facade is sometimes too smooth.
The Norwegian duo return to prove there’s always been more to them than just soothing harmonies
The Norwegian folk-pop duo’s new album picks up where their 2000s output left off.
Kings of Convenience are content to give the people what they want on their first album in 12 years, while singer/rapper BERWYN is aiming high
Though they never really went away, emerging for the occasional live performance or an ill-fated start at an album, Kings of Convenience -- the Norwegian duo of singer/guitarists Erik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye -- nonetheless ended up with a 12-year gap between their Billboard 200-charting fourth album (depending on how you count), Declaration of Dependence, and 2021's Peace or Love.
With each year that passed since Kings of Convenience's 2009 album, Declaration of Dependence, their idiosyncratic brand of acoustic folk fe...
Kings of Convenience's ‘Peace or Love’ situates love as a force that works largely to bring trouble and pain.
Kings Of Convenience Peace Or Love Album review by Adam Fink. The Swedish band's full-length is out today via IMPERIAL
For their first album since 2009, the Norwegian duo keep things pared back to explore the complexity of love and desire<br>
The folk-pop duo return with an album that's occasionally too smooth to soothe. New music review by Barney Harsent