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Kings Of Convenience have released ‘Fever’, the second track lifted from their first album in over a decade, ‘Peace or Love’.The cruisey single, led by the duo’s guitar melodies and harmonised vocals, explores the highs and lows of love, before closing out with piano runs and a wash of strings.Listen to the song below:“’Fever’ is the song on ‘Peace or Love’ that was the quickest to write, born from a pure and simple burst of inspiration,” vocalist Erlend Øye said in a statement.“The recording and arranging however, was as usual a long process, culminating in Eirik [Glambek Bøe] adding the riveting piano outro in the albums final days of recording in February 2020.”The Norwegian duo announced ‘Peace or Love’ earlier this year, along with

Kings Of Convenience have announced the release of their first album in 12 years, and shared its lead single ‘Rocky Trail’.The album, titled ‘Peace Or Love’, will be released on June 18 via EMI and will be the Norwegian duo’s first since 2009’s ‘Declaration Of Dependence’.You can hear the delicate, acoustic-led new single below, along with a video featuring the band’s Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe performing in a typically Scandanavian house.“Another classic Eirik composition that skilfully ignores the verse-chorus-verse blueprint” said Øye of the new single. “It’s pop music, but not as we know it”.The tracklisting for Peace Or Love is as follows:1. Rumours2. Rocky Trail3. Comb My Hair4. Angel5. Love Is A Lonely Thing6. Fever7. Killers8.