Since K Got Over Me

"Since K Got Over Me" opens Strange Geometry at 3:52 and was the lead single, a limited 7-inch released on August 22, 2005, with "Devil Got My Woman" and "I Believe It" on the B-sides. It was recorded in March 2005 at Bark Studio in Walthamstow with Brian O'Shaughnessy producing, and the sources do not say whether strings appear on this track. K is never identified; Pitchfork's Joe Tangari joked that apparently this K person is a real heartbreaker. MacLean told Indy Week in 2005 that the song borrows a phrase from "Then He Kissed Me", a subliminal steal, and that he was trying to rip off the Pale Fountains. He told the Arizona Daily Wildcat it sounds Beatles-esque and almost upbeat, with stinging, poetic lyrics about heartbreak.

Tangari called it total 60s sunshine pop that shoots for understatement, and Treble's Jeff Terich called it a shimmering piece of psychedelia with some haunting, melancholy undertones in its Merge 30 Years 30 Tracks list. PopMatters notes that the closing "Six of Spades" echoes the opener musically and lyrically. It remains a live favorite: on the 2023 tour it was played eighth in Seattle, between "Bonfires on the Heath" and "Lamplight", and second in Bristol on January 27, 2024. We found no chart entry or video, and cannot tell whether our upload is the album version, the single or a live recording.