Strange Free World

by Kitchens of Distinction

Strange Free World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 March 1991
  • Label: One Little Indian
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:29
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Roddy Lorimer

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Strange Free World' is an incredibly lush, highly passionate fusion of driving post-punk and the swirling guitar textures of shoegaze. The band delivers deeply atmospheric, melodic anthems of romantic longing and bittersweet melancholy, marked by Patrick Fitzgerald's emotive vocal delivery.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, dreamy, reverb-heavy, shimmering, guitars, vocal, jangly

Tracklist

  1. Railwayed (4:56)
  2. Quick As Rainbows (3:49)
  3. Hypnogogic (4:01)
  4. He Holds Her, He Needs Her (3:48)
  5. Polaroids (4:51)
  6. Gorgeous Love (4:21)
  7. Aspray (3:37)
  8. Drive That Fast (5:36)
  9. Within The Daze Of Passion (3:57)
  10. Under The Sky, Inside The Sea (4:30)

Credits

  • Kitchens Of Distinction - primary artist, sleeve, written-by, performer
  • Michael J. Ade - engineer [assistant]
  • Richard T. Norris - mixed by [assistant engineer]
  • Helen Woodward - mixed by [engineer]
  • Colin Bell - photography by
  • Hugh Jones - producer, engineer
  • Two Guys - sleeve
  • Roddy Lorimer - trumpet

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