Love Is Hell (Kitchens of Distinction album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Love Is Hell


Type = Album
Artist = Kitchens of Distinction
Released = April 1989
Recorded = Berry Street Studios
Genre = Shoegazer, alternative rock
Length = 56:23
Label = One Little Indian, TPLP9 (UK)
A&M Records (US)
Producer = Kitchens of Distinction
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9fuxql5ld6e link]
Last album =
This album = "Love is Hell"
(1989)
Next album = "Strange Free World"
(1991)

"Love Is Hell" is the debut album from UK alternative rock group Kitchens of Distinction, first released in April 1989.

While the album earned KOD comparisons to bands like Echo and the Bunnymen and the Chameleons, the guitar soundscapes created by Julian Swales and the passionate lyrics and vocal delivery from Patrick Fitzgerald gave Kitchens of Distinction their own signature sound. The album also maintains a punkier sound than to be featured on the band's later albums "Strange Free World" (1991) and "The Death of Cool" (1992).

The US CD edition of the album includes the band's 1989 "Elephantine EP" as 4 bonus tracks. [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9fuxql5ld6e All Music Guide - Kitchens of Distinction "Love Is Hell" album review] ]

The album takes its title from the last line in "Hammer," a song about love gone wrong [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:apfpxq9rldhe All Music Guide - Kitchens of Distinction "Hammer" song review] ] :

Cquote
What would you do if you were like me
Were taken in when he said that he wanted to take me home
And he takes me up to his room
And he says "no no no no"
It's good but it's a last fatal fuck
Then you know that "love is hell".

Track listing

# "In a Cave" - 4:36
# "Time to Groan" - 3:55
# "Shiver" - 5:20
# "Prize" - 5:26
# "The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule" - 3:20
# "Her Last Day in Bed" - 4:32
# "Courage, Mother" - 2:50
# "Mainly Mornings" - 3:14
# "Hammer" - 6:03
# "Elephantine" (bonus track) - 3:20
# "Margaret's Injection" (bonus track) - 4:33
# "The 1001st Fault" (bonus track) - 4:07
# "Anvil Dub" (bonus track) - 5:17

ingles

* "Prize" (October 1988)
** b/w: "Concede" / "Innocent"
* "The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule" (May 1989)
** b/w: "4 Men" (early version) / "Into the Sea" / "Prize" (Demo)
* "Elephantine" EP (October 1989)
** b/w: "Margaret's Injection" / "The 1001st Fault" / "Anvil Dub"

References