History
The band first formed at the State University of New York at Purchase, where Joshua Benash and Jared Karns had previously played in other bands. The band took their name from a series of short stories by Roald Dahl.
Their debut full-length album, Reality vs. The Optimist, was released on February 6, 2007, under the New Jersey-based Eyeball Records. However, it had been recorded and prepared for release many months earlier, and several music tracks had leaked onto the Internet by November 2006. A "tour edition" of the CD, limited to 1,000 copies, was sold at shows between the November leak of the album and the February release date.
A blog post on the band's Myspace page, on August 7, 2008, stated that the band's second full-length album, The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left, was almost complete and expected to be released in early 2009. A special edition re-release of Reality vs. The Optimist was planned for late-2008, but information regarding its release has since been removed from the Eyeball Records website.
The album The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left was officially released on July 7, 2009.
On January 7, 2011, Josh Benash announced a side project called "Vuvuzela" with some of the members of Kiss Kiss.
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