Their first full-length album, Love Is Hell , was released in April 1989. Fitzgerald’s impassioned, wordy, often bluntly personal vocals careened over what sounded like a mass of swirling guitars, though the band only had one guitarist. Swales’ chiming, effects -laden style of playing drew him comparisons to the guitarists of the Chameleons , Cocteau Twins , and A.R. Kane . KOD’s melodic yet abstract sound was a precursor of the shoegaze scene of the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Love Is Hell
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