Sleeve: Grainy, unsmiling band portrait. No kitchens. Nothing flash, like their no-nonsense three-piece variation on My Bloody Valentine's sound.

Sleevenotes: "Music was everything to us. It had to achieve an emotional or cosmic uplift and depth, or it got dropped", writes vocalist Patrick Fitzgerald. His comments on his upfront homosexual lyrics are especially telling, predating Joel Gibb's Hidden Cameras by more than 15 years.

Content: Band formed in London in 1985, stopped in Summer 1996; Capsule is chronological pick from four albums for One Little Indian.

High point: The moment in The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule where Fitzgerald is lost for words and only Julian Swales' swirling guitar will express his sense of wonder.

Low point: No hits. Witness Fitzgerald's sense of disappointment over Sand On Fire missing out. "We thought this was a definite hit. Oh well."

Glaring omissions: 4 Men, Shiver, Here Come The Swans, but all make it to second CD of demos, 12-inch releases, original mixes, live and acoustic versions.

Anything new?: The aforementioned bonus album.

Excuse for release: No excuse needed. Kitchens Of Distinction just didn't fit at the time. Please give them their posthumous 15 minutes.

Where might this end up?: Hopefully in all homes of musical distinction.

Updated: 08:56 Thursday, May 29, 2003