Listening to Kings of Convenience

Issue 18, Volume 2: Spring 2011
Poetry

In the arpeggioed, folky early stuff
like Toxic Girl, the bass drum’s dumph-dumph-dumph

which signals the lead solo, stands out a mile,
the timing of it almost as comical

as the dink-dink-dink of the opening harmonic—
somewhere between idyllic and ironic—

and the bassline saunters, bum-bums along,
like all good basslines, only noticed when it’s gone.

Andrew Jamison was born in County Down in 1986 and was educated there, at Down High School, before studying at the universities of London and St Andrews. He has been selected to represent the UK in Morocco at the 2011 International Biennale of Young Artists and currently works for Teach First, teaching English in Bradford, at Dixons Allerton Academy.