Watch our planet circle

"Whether they lost potential listeners to complexity, a post-punk-odd name, association with a label less hip than 4AD or Creation, or their openly gay front-person and bassist Patrick Fitzgerald, who wrote emotive and poetic songs about love, lust, and pain, this ends all debate regarding their everlasting appeal. These three weren't merely of their time".

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"Music of quality and distinction - Watch Our Planet Circle, however, reminds us why we should be grateful the ace South London trio chose to damn the torpedoes and carry on regardless. Completists may bemoan the absence of the rare, career book-ending 45s (1987's near-mythical, self-released Last Gasp Death Shuffle and '96's Fierce Panda-sponsored Feel My Genie), but these are merely trifles when you consider this exhaustive, memorabilia-stuffed box includes the band's entire One Little Indian-sponsored oeuvre: a remarkable six-year cycle during which time KOD repeatedly trapped lightning in a bottle ... The two additional discs enthusiastically plug the remaining gaps. Flouting the BBC's wishes, John Peel finally requested KOD record a session after their memorable Glastonbury slot in '92 and it's now reprised on Watch Our Planet Circle's fifth disc, alongside an impassioned Mark Radcliffe session circa Cowboys & Aliens. A diligent ransacking of the vaults results inacomprehensive final disc of B-sides and out-takes, with the medal contenders including the irregularly nervy, Josef K-esque Concede and an edgier alternate take of Quick As Rainbows culled from a session overseen by the legendary Martin Hannett".