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The Norwegian Simon and Garfunkel build their Bookends
such clever boys! with this album's wondrous opener, "Homesick," Norway's Kings of Convenience have created the acoustic equivalent of an M.C. Escher drawing, as Erlend Oye plays a distracted clerk in love with the song he inhabits. "I'll lose some sales, and my boss won't be happy/But I can't stop listening to the sound of two soft voices blended in perfection," Oye sings, joined in harmony by co-King Eirik Glambek Boe. Echoing the tone and title of their 2001 album Quiet Is the New Loud, Riot on an Empty Street shimmers with melancholy beauty, leavened by the breezy bossa nova of "Live Long" and the front-porch disco of "Love Is No Big Truth" -- the best banjo-laced dance track since the Disco Four's 1982 "Country Rock and Rap."
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Track List
- Homesick
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HOMESICK (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Misread
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MISREAD (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Cayman Islands
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CAYMAN ISLANDS (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Stay Out Of Trouble
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STAY OUT OF TROUBLE (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Know-How
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KNOW HOW (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Sorry Or Please
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SORRY OR PLEASE (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Love Is No Big Truth
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LOVE IS NO BIG TRUTH (track not available in Rhapsody)
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I'D RATHER DANCE WITH YOU (track not available in Rhapsody)
- I'd Rather Dance With You
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LIVE LONG (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Live Long
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SURPRISE ICE (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Surprise Ice
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GOLD IN THE AIR OF SUMMER (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Gold In The Air Of Summer
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THE BUILD UP (track not available in Rhapsody)
- The Build-Up
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