There aren't many albums like the lone LP from the Kinbotes, and I like it that way, mainly because no one could really touch the essence and atmosphere contained within the LP. For years little was known about the album, aside from it being presumed to be from NYC (the label, Nix, was located there). No one really knew much about the Kinbotes, as they weren't part of any 'scene', instead falling into a category I like to call 'bedroom pop', simply because there is a lo-fi feeling to the album, and it's clear this was, like many private LP's coveted by collectors, the brainchild of some determined people, and something no major label would touch with a ten foot pole. 

Recently, this blog uncovered the story of the Kinbotes, and I recommend you read it, as well as listen to several songs from the LP:  http://bubblingdusk.blogspot.com/2009/11/kinbotes.html 

Once you read the story, the LP can be seen in a different light; it's very sad that Nat, the man essentially behind the Kinbotes (not that Dave wasn't a major part, but as Dave states, much of the ideas and visions came from Nat's mind) took his own life, considering his deadpan critique of Ian Curtis's suicide on "The King of Comedy". 

Does this LP deserve to be reissued? Yes. I was lucky enough to be given a CD-r copy by a close friend who had a copy of the LP; copies do float around, but until I can track one down, I'll make do with the CD-r. Lots of lesser interesting and, frankly, crap albums have managed to get the reissue treatment, and are labeled as 'lost masterpieces', when in fact, they are doo doo. (that's not to say there aren't some lost masterpieces...) The Kinbotes is a lost masterpiece waiting to be discovered by listeners, and until it gets it's full praise, it will be a favorite of the few that know of it by word of mouth.