180g Heavyweight Vinyl. First time on vinyl since 1990. Strange Free World is the second album by Kitchens of Distinction. It is the follow-up to their 1989 debut Love Is Hell. Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo and the Bunnymen (on their 1981 album Heaven Up Here), among many others, helped Kitchens to sound more at ease in the studio. It is often considered one of the group's best works, as well as possibly its most popular and commercially successful, charting at number 45 on the UK Albums Chart. Their allusive, complex lyrics were ground-breaking – vocalist Patrick Fitzgerald sang about life as an unreconciled gay man in a way that was far from in-keeping with the then-trends for gay pop. Their Margaret Thatcher protest song, Margaret's Injection also caused much controversy.
