Strange Free World

Infobox Album |
Name = Strange Free World


Type = Album
Artist = Kitchens of Distinction
Released = February 19, 1991
Recorded = 1990
Genre = Shoegazer, alternative rock
Length = 43:21
Label = One Little Indian, TPLP19 (UK)
A&M Records (US)
Rough Trade Records (EU)
Producer = Hugh Jones
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:blq8b594tsqa link]
* Discogs Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.discogs.com/release/405247 link]
Last album = "Love Is Hell"
(1991)
This album = "Strange Free World"
(1991)
Next album = "The Death of Cool"
(1992)

"Strange Free World" is the second album from London alternative rock group Kitchens of Distinction. It is the follow-up to their 1989 debut "Love Is Hell". Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo and the Bunnymen and R.E.M.Fact|date=August 2008, among many others, helped KOD to sound more at ease in the studio.

Reviewer Ned Raggett notes that "Musically, the tunes sound quite ambitious in many ways, often steering away from conventional verse-chorus-verse formulas," and calling the album an overall excellent effort [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:blq8b594tsqa] ; it is often considered one of the group's best works, as well as possibly its most popular and commercially successful.

Track listing

# "Railwayed" - 4:56
# "Quick as Rainbows" - 3:49
# "Hypnogogic" - 4:01
# "He Holds Her, He Needs Her" - 3:47
# "Polaroids" - 4:54
# "Gorgeous Love" - 4:21
# "Aspray" - 3:37
# "Drive That Fast" - 5:36
# "Within the Daze of Passion" - 3:57
# "Under the Sky, Inside the Sea" - 4:30

ingles

* "Quick as Rainbows" (March 1990)
** UK single b/w: "Mainly Mornings" (Live) / "In a Cave" (Live) / "Shiver" (Live)
** US promo 12" single b/w: "These Drinkers" / "Elephantiny" ("Elephantine" acoustic) / "Three to Beam Up"
* "Drive That Fast" (January 1991)
** UK single b/w: "These Drinkers" / "Elephantiny" / "Three to Beam Up"
** US promo 12" single b/w: "Railwayed"