好自在乐队（英语：Kings of Convenience），也译便利之王，是来自挪威卑尔根的独立民谣流行双人乐队，以精巧曲风、温暖嗓音与错纵细腻的吉他旋律著称。它由艾伦·欧伊和艾瑞克·宝组成，两人兼司谱曲和演唱。
乐队历史
欧伊与宝皆生于1975年，10岁时就认识对方。在16岁时与另外两人一起组了一个乐队Skog（挪威语中"森林"的意思），并发行了一张EP《Tom Tids Tale》，乐队解散后，欧伊与宝便组成了现今的Kings两人组合。
在1999年的夏天，双人组合在欧洲的音乐季亮相后，与美国音乐品牌Kindercore签约。在伦敦共同工作了一段时间后，2001年他们发行了第一张专辑《沉默是金》，由酷玩乐队的制作人Ken Nelson操刀制作。该专辑相当成功，甚至把专辑名称（Quiet Is the New Loud）出借给地下流行乐的一个小型运动（参与者有同时期的不插电双人团体Turin Brakes），推动更细腻微妙的旋律与要传递的讯息，该运动以艾略特·史密斯、Belle & Sebastian，以及西蒙和加芬克尔作为启发对象。
Øye and Bøe were both born in 1975 (Øye on November 21 and Bøe on October 25) and have known each other since they met in the same class at school. Their first musical collaboration was a comedic rap about a teacher. At sixteen, they played together in the band Skog ("forest") with two other friends, releasing one EP, Tom Tids Tale, before breaking up and later forming the Kings duo.
The duo was signed to the American label Kindercore after appearing in European festivals during the summer of 1999. After a spell living in London in 2001, they released their debut album Quiet Is the New Loud. The album was produced by Coldplay producer Ken Nelson. The album was very successful and even lent its name to a small movement of musicians in the pop underground (including acoustic contemporaries such as Turin Brakes) which took Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian and Simon & Garfunkel as their inspiration and focused on more subtle melodies and messages.
Versus, an album of remixes of tracks from Quiet Is the New Loud, came out shortly after. After this breakthrough year, not much was heard from the band. Øye spent the next few years living in Berlin and doing solo material, releasing music under the DJ Kicks series as well as a solo album titled Unrest. He also had a side project named The Whitest Boy Alive.
It was not until 2004 that the Kings' follow-up Riot on an Empty Street was released. The video made for "I'd Rather Dance With You," the second single from the album, topped MTV's European list as the best music video of 2004. The album also featured contributions by Feist.
In January 2008 the band played concerts in the Northern Norwegian cities of Tromsø, Svolvær and Bodø, and Swedish city Umeå along with a concert in August in Stockholm. The band then toured North America, Latin America and Europe, including stops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Detroit; Latin American stops in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Brazil and Chile, where they performed in Santiago with local musician Javiera Mena, who later opened for them in Spain and Portugal. European stops include Italy, Switzerland and Spain. On some of their American tour stops they appeared with the band Franklin for Short who joined them on stage for a few rousing numbers.
Their third album, called Declaration of Dependence, was released on October 20, 2009.
In June 2012, the band performed at the Primavera Sound festivals in both Barcelona and Porto.
In 2017, Eirik released an album entitled 'Analog Dance Music' with his new band Kommode.
In March 2019, Kings of Convenience provided an update regarding their upcoming (fourth) album, stating that "the songs were written and even performed live, but when we tried to record it during 2016/2017 for a mixture of reasons the results just weren’t good enough[, and] by that time I (Erlend) didn’t have anymore energy to pour into it[, ... so] 2018 was a charging battery year, and now we are planning to try again".
好自在乐队（英语：Kings of Convenience），也译便利之王，是来自挪威卑尔根的独立民谣流行双人乐队，以精巧曲风、温暖嗓音与错纵细腻的吉他旋律著称。它由艾伦·欧伊和艾瑞克·宝组成，两人兼司谱曲和演唱。
乐队历史
欧伊与宝皆生于1975年，10岁时就认识对方。在16岁时与另外两人一起组了一个乐队Skog（挪威语中"森林"的意思），并发行了一张EP《Tom Tids Tale》，乐队解散后，欧伊与宝便组成了现今的Kings两人组合。
在1999年的夏天，双人组合在欧洲的音乐季亮相后，与美国音乐品牌Kindercore签约。在伦敦共同工作了一段时间后，2001年他们发行了第一张专辑《沉默是金》，由酷玩乐队的制作人Ken Nelson操刀制作。该专辑相当成功，甚至把专辑名称（Quiet Is the New Loud）出借给地下流行乐的一个小型运动（参与者有同时期的不插电双人团体Turin Brakes），推动更细腻微妙的旋律与要传递的讯息，该运动以艾略特·史密斯、Belle & Sebastian，以及西蒙和加芬克尔作为启发对象。
Øye and Bøe were both born in 1975 (Øye on November 21 and Bøe on October 25) and have known each other since they met in the same class at school. Their first musical collaboration was a comedic rap about a teacher. At sixteen, they played together in the band Skog ("forest") with two other friends, releasing one EP, Tom Tids Tale, before breaking up and later forming the Kings duo.
The duo was signed to the American label Kindercore after appearing in European festivals during the summer of 1999. After a spell living in London in 2001, they released their debut album Quiet Is the New Loud. The album was produced by Coldplay producer Ken Nelson. The album was very successful and even lent its name to a small movement of musicians in the pop underground (including acoustic contemporaries such as Turin Brakes) which took Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian and Simon & Garfunkel as their inspiration and focused on more subtle melodies and messages.
Versus, an album of remixes of tracks from Quiet Is the New Loud, came out shortly after. After this breakthrough year, not much was heard from the band. Øye spent the next few years living in Berlin and doing solo material, releasing music under the DJ Kicks series as well as a solo album titled Unrest. He also had a side project named The Whitest Boy Alive.
It was not until 2004 that the Kings' follow-up Riot on an Empty Street was released. The video made for "I'd Rather Dance With You," the second single from the album, topped MTV's European list as the best music video of 2004. The album also featured contributions by Feist.
In January 2008 the band played concerts in the Northern Norwegian cities of Tromsø, Svolvær and Bodø, and Swedish city Umeå along with a concert in August in Stockholm. The band then toured North America, Latin America and Europe, including stops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Detroit; Latin American stops in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Brazil and Chile, where they performed in Santiago with local musician Javiera Mena, who later opened for them in Spain and Portugal. European stops include Italy, Switzerland and Spain. On some of their American tour stops they appeared with the band Franklin for Short who joined them on stage for a few rousing numbers.
Their third album, called Declaration of Dependence, was released on October 20, 2009.
In June 2012, the band performed at the Primavera Sound festivals in both Barcelona and Porto.
In 2017, Eirik released an album entitled 'Analog Dance Music' with his new band Kommode.
In March 2019, Kings of Convenience provided an update regarding their upcoming (fourth) album, stating that "the songs were written and even performed live, but when we tried to record it during 2016/2017 for a mixture of reasons the results just weren’t good enough[, and] by that time I (Erlend) didn’t have anymore energy to pour into it[, ... so] 2018 was a charging battery year, and now we are planning to try again".
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