Question: Which was an alternative rock band, The Charlatans or Kitchens of Distinction?

Context articles: Love Is Hell (Kitchens of Distinction album)
Strange Free World
Melting Pot (The Charlatans album)
Cowboys and Aliens (album)
Kitchens of Distinction
The Charlatans (1995 album)
One to Another
Me. In Time
The Charlatans (English band)
The Death of Cool

Love Is Hell is the debut album by British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, first released in April 1989 by One Little Indian Records in the UK and A&M Records in the US.
 While the album earned KOD comparisons to bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and The Chameleons, the guitar soundscapes created by Julian Swales and the passionate lyrics and vocal delivery from Patrick Fitzgerald gave Kitchens of Distinction their own signature sound.
 The album also maintains a punkier sound than to be featured on the band's later albums.
 The 1993 CD edition of the album includes the band's 1989 "Elephantine" EP as 4 bonus tracks.
Strange Free World is the second album by British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, released on February 19, 1991 in the US by A&M Records and on March 18, 1991 in the UK by One Little Indian Records.
 It is the follow-up to their 1989 debut "Love Is Hell".
 Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo & the Bunnymen (on their 1981 album "Heaven Up Here"), among many others, helped KOD to sound more at ease in the studio.
Melting Pot is a greatest hits album by the British alternative rock band The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK).
 Featuring tracks from their time on Beggars Banquet Records between 1990 and 1997, the album was released on 23 February 1998.
 The cover features a picture of The Weaverdale cafe (subsequently renamed The Melting Pot, but closed in November 2016, and serving now as a florist) in Northwich, the site of the group's first meeting after signing to Beggars in 1990.
 The song "Opportunity Three" is a remix by Flood of the song "Opportunity" from the "Some Friendly" album that otherwise only appeared on the "Over Rising" EP.
Cowboys and Aliens is the fourth studio album by British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, released on 4 October 1994 in the UK by One Little Indian Records and on January 24, 1995 by A&M Records in the US.
Kitchens of Distinction (sometimes shortened colloquially to KOD) are an English three-person alternative rock band formed in Tooting, South London in 1986.
 They released four studio albums and a handful of singles and EPs before disbanding in 1996.
 In September 2012, Patrick Fitzgerald announced on his Stephen Hero Facebook page that he, along with original members Julian Swales and Dan Goodwin, were working on new material as Kitchens of Distinction.
 The reunited trio released their fifth studio album, their first since 1994, in late September 2013.
The Charlatans is the fourth album by the British alternative rock band The Charlatans, released on 28 August 1995.
 It went to the top of the UK Albums Chart the same year.
 "The Charlatans" is rated 84 in the Melody Maker's top 100 albums of all-time list from 2000.
"One to Another" is a song by British alternative rock band The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK).
 It was the first single from the album "Tellin' Stories", and the first single since the death of band member Rob Collins.
 The single remains their highest charting of all time reaching the number three position in the UK Singles Chart.
 "One to Another" features drum loops provided by Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers.
Me.
 In Time was a single by the English alternative rock band The Charlatans, released in November 1991.
 "Me.
 In Time" was the first Charlatans single to feature the contribution of Mark Collins, who replaced John Baker as the band's guitarist in mid-1991.
The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are an English indie rock band.
 The band's line-up comprises lead vocalist Tim Burgess, guitarist Mark Collins, bassist Martin Blunt and keyboardist Tony Rogers.
The Death of Cool is the third studio album from British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, released on 3 August 1992 in the UK by One Little Indian Records and a day later in the US by A&M Records.
 The album is the follow-up to 1991's "Strange Free World" and was once again produced by Hugh Jones.
 While considered by most fans to be their strongest effort, the album was largely ignored by the general public in the midst of the popularity of grunge rock in 1992, charting at #72 on the UK Albums Chart.
 Allmusic critic Ned Raggett praises the album as a "multifaceted, deeply felt hour of music that is easily the equal of such similar masterpieces of post-punk guitar rock as The Chameleons' "Script of the Bridge" and The Sound's "Heads and Hearts"."
 Lead singer Patrick Fitzgerald said this of the album: