Ultra-mellow acoustic duo Kings of Convenience are not broken up despite the success of Erlend Øye's Whitest Boy Alive, and in fact have been commuting between Norway and Italy completing their third album. Øye's shift back to acoustic recordings have apparently been easy: "I stopped working with electronic music as I realized it's much more fun to play live with KoC and WBA."

Quiet IS The New Loud is the tentative title for the album -- tentative because Quiet Is The New Loud was the name of the their 2001 debut and the the record company still has to approve of it.

Davide Bertolini takes the reigns as co-producer this time and has been helping trim down the tracklist from 14 to 12. "It's hard because we know how we want each song to sound, but not quite how to play it in order to make it sound that way. Recording a song is like drawing a perfect circle, but we are determined," says Bøe. "We'll get there."

Eirik Glambek Bøe's other band Kommode has been quiet lately, but is still intact.
The Whitest Boy Alive is set to release their second album this coming February.

[via Stereogum]