Kudos to You!
album by The Presidents of the United States of America
Kudos to You! is the sixth and final studio album by The Presidents of the United States of America. It was released on February 14, 2014.
The album was announced on November 22, 2013. It started as a project through the direct-to-fan platform PledgeMusic, where fans were able to pledge money for the future album, as well as other rarities, such as lyric sheets. The project reached its goal in nine days.
According to their PledgeMusic campaign, The Presidents of the United States of America more or less actively considered These Are the Good Times People to be their final album. Despite this, studio time was booked for October 2013, with nothing really planned. No songs had been written, but apparently the music kept coming, and more studio time was booked for November.
Also announced as part of this project was a live album, which was released the same day.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q16963566. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2013.
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