Hot Trip to Heaven
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| Studio album by Love and Rockets | ||||
| Released | 26 September 1994 | |||
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| Length | 64:03 | |||
| Label | American | |||
| Producer | Love and Rockets | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Hot Press | (favourable) |
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| New York Magazine | (favourable) |
| Trouser Press | (favourable) |
Hot Trip to Heaven is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1994 on Beggar's Banquet in the United Kingdom and American in the United States. Released after a five-year hiatus, the album saw the band drop their former gothic alternative rock sound in favour of a hi-tech electronic, ambient direction, drawing on influences from ambient techno artists such as The Orb and Orbital, while retaining the band's psychedelic focus. The band were first intrigued in making electronic music at the start of the decade.
The songs on the album are longer than those on previous albums, encompassing a broader tonal range. Natacha Atlas, who drummer Kevin Haskins worked with during the band's hiatus, performs additional vocals and percussion the album, lending the album a world music influence. Promoted by the singles "Body and Soul" and "This Heaven", the album was released to indifference from fans, where the album alienated much of their core college rock audience, and the album was a commercial failure. However, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised the band's radical new direction, with some calling the album sensual and among the band's greatest work to date. Lead singer Daniel Ash remains proud of the album.
After the commercial success of alternative rock band Love and Rockets' self-titled third album from 1989, which produced the hit single "So Alive", which reached number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart the same year, the band took a hiatus in the early 1990s, during which the band worked on solo material and on other projects, including the band's drummer Kevin Haskins producing material by Egyptian-Belgian singer Natacha Atlas of Trans-Global Underground.
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