The Kitchens aimed to both consolidate and explore new facets of their sound on the followup to Strange Free World; while The Death of Cool landed in a new commercial grey zone thanks to the commercial rise of grunge, artistically they succeeded. With Hugh Jones again producing and Julian Swales’s guitar once more in beautiful overdrive, songs like “4 Men,” an earlier B-side given a striking new reading, and the tender, focused feeling of “Gone World Gone” and “Mad as Snow,” featuring some of Patrick Fitzgerald’s best singing, it’s a beautiful hour spent.