Kid Gloves (Marmaduke Duke song)
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| "Kid Gloves" | ||||
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| Single by Marmaduke Duke | ||||
| from the album Duke Pandemonium | ||||
| Released | 2 March 2009 | |||
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| Length | 3:30 | |||
| Label | 14th Floor | |||
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"Kid Gloves" is a 2009 single released by Scottish band Marmaduke Duke as the lead single from their second studio album Duke Pandemonium (2009). A remix of the song was created by Russell Leetch, which NME described as "should help to cheer up those smokers outside the hospital doors".[1] Commercially, it debuted at number twelve on the UK Physical Singles Charts,[2] and at number four on the singles charts in their native Scotland.[3]
"Kid Gloves" has been described as the band members' favourite, claiming "it's a highly emotional and beautiful song".[4] Loud and Quiet said that the songs lyrics, particularly, "Are we crazy or are we glad? Keep your instincts to make a stand Keep on searching for what we had To remind us all", goes "its ambiguous but resolute refrain, capable of being interpreted a thousand different ways".[4] Loud and Quiet described the song as "not the sound that you’d expect to be produced by a pair of tattooed beards".[4]
Simon Neil said that "Kid Gloves" was "a lot more cohesive" than the sound the band produced for their debut album, The Magnificent Duke (2005), and said that "it's a dance record really – or our attempt to make a dance record".[5] NME described the song as "an electronic horizon", in which the band "come up with three dreamlike minutes of pop wonderment".[6]