Kitchens Of Distinction: Folly, Vinyl LP

"I can listen to a British Sea Power record and think: ‘You know
what? Kitchens Of Distinction were ahead of their time.’”           

STEVE LAMACQ / BBC RADIO / 2013

Kitchens Of Distinction return with a brand new studio album, ‘Folly’, their fifth album and the first for 19 years.

In Summer 2011 Patrick Fitzgerald asked Julian Swales whether he would like to work on some new songs together. With the constraints of distance, day jobs and family duties
taken into account, things slowly started to come together. Dan Goodwin was invited to join in the fun and eventually ten songs loomed out of the mist. Ten
new songs that sound not as a pastiche of a band 20 years on but, as Julian puts it, are "like a new version sucked through time and space.” 

The songs were recorded in Patrick’s studio in Derbyshire and at Julian’s studio in Brighton and were mixed with Pascal Gabriel (Kylie, Goldfrapp, Inspiral Carpets, Ladyhawke) in April 2013.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Kitchens of Distinction were formed in London in 1986 and started and ended their career
with a Single of the Week in the UK music press. In between they put out four albums and won the hearts and minds of a generation.

Hit singles generally eluded them (the band’s third single "The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule” did however make it into the ‘NME Writers 100 Best Indie
Singles Ever’ list in 1992) but they fared better in the US with "Drive That Fast” hitting number one on the college radio charts over there.