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A. R. Kane Album Reviews 5out of 5
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It may be a little known fact to many but the members of A. R. Kane have enjoyed a number one hit when they teamed up with fellow 'no-hopers' (in the commercial sense) Colourbox as M/A/R/R/S with the 1987 hit 'Pump Up The Volume' which makes them one-hit wonders. But A. R. Kane's future successes were only in the alternative charts and they don't come much more alternative than these two albums. Their sound was an odd mixture of early Cocteau Twins like production (cavernous bass, dub soundscapes) with soulful vocals. The first album is sparse sounding and has a haunting quality to it; it's sole excursion into pop being 'Crazy Blue' but even that sounds too mysterious for the charts. The second album lasts over an hour and is made up of 16 songs and 10 'interludes' of white noise and samples all of which clock in at around 30 seconds. The songs themselves are almost universally great from hypnoptic, more pop-oriented numbers like 'Love From Outer Space', 'Miles Apart' and 'Pop' to the gorgeous, spectral 'Sugarwings'.
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  Track Listing
01 Hello
02 A Love From Outer Space
03 Crack Up
04 Timewind
05 What's All This Then?
06 Snow Joke
07 Off Into Space
08 And I Say
09 Yeti
10 Conundrum
11 Honeysuckleswallow
12 Long Body
13 In A Circle
14 Fast Ka
15 Miles Apart
16 Pop
17 Mars
18 Spook
Standout Track Sugarwings
20 Back Home
21 Down
22 Supervixens
23 Insect Love
24 Sorry
25 Catch My Drift
26 Challenge

Standout Track = Standout Track

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A. R. Kane - 'Sixty Nine'
Cocteau Twins, The - BBC Sessions
Colourbox - Colourbox, Best Of 82/87
Khonnor - Handwriting
Kitchens Of Distinction - Love Is Hell, Strange Free World, The Death Of Cool, Cowboys And Aliens, Capsule - The Best Of KOD: 1988-94
Marshall Star - Uncontrollable
My Computer - Vulnerabilia
Wyatt, Robert - EPs, Rock Bottom, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
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