Kitchens of Distinction

Kitchens of Distinction was an English alternative rock band led by singer and bassist Patrick Fitzgerald, guitarist Julian Swales, and drummer Dan Goodman, who released four LPs between 1989 and 1994 and the genre Shoegazing has been assigned.

Band History

The trio Kitchens of Distinction, which found his name in a newspaper advertisement for kitchens made ​​to measure, was founded in 1986 in Tooting, London by Patrick Fitzgerald, Julian Swales and Dan Goodman. After their debut single Last Gasp Death Shuffle, which they released Gold Rush on their band's own label, has been named in the British music magazine NME single of the week, was the independent record label One Little Indian Records attention to the band, they signed her and released after two more singles, the debut album Love Is Hell. The album was well received by the critics, nor what the single Elephantine was released. Relevant press was in addition to the musical qualities of the band, with simultaneous publications such as the harmonized well by My Bloody Valentine, the open avowal of homosexuality from frontman Patrick Fitzgerald, which was not of course in the late 1980s.

With the reputation of a cult band in the back, the band released in 1991 their second album Strange Free World, which was produced by Hugh Jones, briefly appeared only for publication in the UK charts and then hardly attracted attention. Even fewer sales brought the 1992er follow-up album The Death of Cool and as the fourth album of the band Cowboys and Aliens in 1994 was also very successful, the band was dismissed by her record label.

The trio released in 1996 the single Feel My Genie under the name Kitchens OD and then broke up. Patrick Fitzgerald published in 1997 under the name Fruit Album Hark at Her on which among others, Julian Swales and Dan Goodman participated.

Published in 2003, the label One Little Indian Records, a best-of compilation under the name Capsule ( The Best of KOD 1988-1994).

Discography

Albums

  • Love Is Hell ( 1989)
  • Strange Free World (1991 )
  • The Death of Cool (1992 )
  • Cowboys and Aliens (1994 )
  • Folly (2013 )

Singles & EPs

  • Last Gasp Death Shuffle ( 1987)
  • Prize (1988 )
  • The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule (1989 )
  • Elephantine (1989 )
  • Drive That Fast (1991 )
  • Breathing Fear ( 1992)
  • When in Heaven ( 1992)
  • Now It's Time to Say Goodbye ( 1994)
  • Japan To Jupiter (2013 )

Compilations

  • Capsule - The Best of KOD 1988-1994 (2003)
My Bloody Valentine (band) Hugh Jones (producer)
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