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...groups to emerge from that movement, sweater-clad, skinny-white-boy duo Kings of Convenience—otherwise known as Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe—have found the most commercial success. Critical acclaim up to this point has been well-deserved: their delicate guitar strumming, occasionally infused with piano, horns, and violin, channels the pared-down acoustics of Pink Moon-era Nick Drake and warm harmonizing of Simon & Garfunkel into gentle, unassumingly beautiful melodies. Øye, the Paul Simon of the pair, sings in a slightly accented baritone about girls he?...
...songs such as these, González reaches the sort of confessional intimacy with which fellow Scandinavian artists like Kings of Convenience’s Erlend Øye only flirt...
...Kicks: Erlend...
...techheads everywhere are filling the internet with cryable cross-genre “mash-ups” of old and new pop songs (cf. Jay Z’s lyrics on top of Pavement, Weezer, Sgt. Pepper). Erstwhile DJ, dork-stud and half of the folksy Kings of Convenience Erlend Oye doesn’t need to prove his musical chops, and as the DJ Kicks logo indicates, he’s no “Rad DJ” Adrien Brody. For this umpteeth compilation of the famed series, Erlend reaches past the Ecstatic tubthumpers so beloved on Ibiza...
Kristin, casually seduced by Erlend, so passionately loves him that she brutally jilts her own betrothed, forces Erlend's promised bride to suicide, marries Erlend herself. Then, goaded by the priesthood, her conscience slowly besets her. She carps at Erlend, embitters her seven sons, torments herself, until at last Erlend is killed in a brawl and she herself dies in a nunnery...
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