How music should be - Kings of Convenience 9/10/09 @ Bowery Ballroom

I was one of the lucky audience to experience "The Build Up" and "Know How" performed by Kings of Convenience and Feist live yesterday at the Bowery Ballroom. Below is a short video of the tail end of the latter, just to give you a taste of what it was like. However, the best part was Feist joining in from the balcony in the unplugged no-mic version of "The Build Up". Thankfully, this amazing performance silenced even the muttering audience near the bar in the back of the room.

Kings of Convenience will release their junior album titled Declaration of Dependence sometime in October. The show last night consisted mostly of a preview of the new songs (including "Mrs Cold" from my previous post) and some older songs ("Cayman Islands", "Homesick", and "Little Kids" to name a few) and although I'm neither a concert nor album reviewer, I feel compelled to say something about their performance last night and upcoming album: the sound braver and more honest and mature, this album is proof that Kings of Convenience, perfect as they may be before in Quiet is the New Loud and Riot in an Empty Street, is still crafting a sound that continually outdoes their previous without going completely astray in direction. Declaration of Dependence is definitely a candidate for 2009's best album.