Face to Face, released in 1966 on Pye Records in the United Kingdom and on Reprise Records in the United States, is the fourth UK studio album by The Kinks. A major artistic breakthrough for Kinks’ songwriter Ray Davies, the LP represents the first full flowering of Davies’ use of [...]

Preservation: Act 1 and Preservation: Act 2 are 1973 concept albums (originally a single rock opera, but the idea was scratched), released as separate albums in 1973 and 1974 by the English rock group The Kinks. Many hardcore Kinks fans were alienated by Ray Davies’ melodramatic songwriting during the Preservation [...]