Kings of Convenience release their first album in 12 years, ‘Peace Or Love’. The album release is accompanied by the band’s latest single, ‘Catholic Country’ which features vocals from Canadian singer/songwriter, and friend of the band, Feist. A sunlit love song, co-composed with British folk group The Staves, ‘Catholic Country’ finds the band exploring the tension that comes with love and distance.

“Feist was coming to Europe in the summer of 2019 and motivated us to get some recordings done at Erlends house in Sicily” explains Erlend. “We worked on many songs there, some of which will see the light of day in the future, but Catholic Country was already the ripest of fruit. It only needed picking.”

‘Peace or Love’ is the sound of two old friends exploring the latest phase of their lives together and finding new ways to capture that elusive magic. recorded across five years in five different cities, the album sounds as fresh as spring: 11 songs about life and love with the alluring beauty, purity and emotional clarity that you would expect from Kings of Convenience.

Eirik Glambeck Boe and Erlend Oye met at school in Bergen, Norway and first performed together in the rock band Skog before breaking off and forming a duo in 1999. The pair established themselves as inadvertent trailblazers of a new wave of intimate, acoustic music. They’ve released 3 critically acclaimed albums, toured all around the world and cultivated a dedicated fanbase.