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Quiet Is the New Loud

debut album from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1766300 ↗
Source-derived summary

Quiet Is the New Loud is the debut album by Norwegian indie pop duo Kings of Convenience, released on 29 January 2001 by Astralwerks.

Critical reception

Quiet Is the New Loud received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Caroline Hennessy of RTÉ was quoted saying that "If quiet is indeed the new loud then Eirik and Erlend are on to a sure winner.

Editorial summary

“Quiet Is the New Loud” enters the record as debut album from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Quiet, Loud and debut can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Quiet, Loud and debut.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Quiet Is the New Loud” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Quiet, Loud and debut provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1766300. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Tracing reception history
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Quiet Is the New Loud”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Quiet Is the New Loud primary sources, Quiet Is the New Loud archive and Quiet research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Quiet Is the New Loud” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.