Pretty good, huh?
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Never listened to them but always liked the band name.
Just listened to their second album and thought it was great
Loved them at the time and keep meaning to go back to their albums and see how they hold up.
This is a tune.
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Recently found some blog posts by my late uncle where he was singing their praises, been meaning to check them out. Any recommended starting points?
Heard the name before, but my brain would immediately convert it into Cleaners From Venus.
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Either of the first two albums (Love is Hell or Strange Free World). If you like people like Ride you will probably like them, but there’s a melodic sense and an appealing low level melancholy to them which makes them a bit different.
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Cheers - will stick them on.
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Always liked this one but don’t think I ever had any of their albums.
They seem far more interesting than a lot of the shoegazey landfill stuff. There’s more of a focus on songwriting
Kinda like a shoegaze smiths or echo and the bunnymen
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Great band. Strange Free World is their best I think. The Death of Cool is very good too.
It’s been a while, might have to revisit their first two albums.
Just wrapped up The Death of Cool.
Some great tunes on there.
This is a good description. Got the first album on now, really liking it. Can see the Ride comparison too, @bornin69x.
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Like these guys - they were always playing when I first got into alternative music. Sometimes wondered if their name held them back a bit from being taken seriously while the ‘cool’ bands of the time with their short monikers (Lush/Blur/Curve/Ride) hoovered up the attention.
Their comeback album Folly from (checks notes) TEN (!) years ago is also worth checking out 
I will never find out
Yeah KoD are good, you don’t often see much stuff about them either so they have a bit of an under the radar feel.
I really got into them in the mid-2000s. I’ve never really thought of them as a shoegaze band as so much of their stuff is melodic and poppy.
Will have to give them another listen as it’s been a while.
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Find out what
If they’re any good, that name is not a good name
All band names are shit
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