Angels & Electricity is the fourth studio album by Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts...

 released in the UK on May 11, 1998.

The album has provided Reader with some of her most popular songs including "Kiteflyer's Hill", "Bell, Book and Candle" and "Please Don’t Ask Me to Dance".

As usual, Reader draws on a number of songwriters including "On a Whim", written for her by Ron Sexsmith

Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...

, "Kiteflyer's Hill" by ex-Fairground Attraction

Fairground Attraction

Fairground Attraction were a British acoustic pop band. They are best known for their hit single "Perfect", and for helping to launch the career of lead vocalist Eddi Reader.-Career:...

 band member Mark Nevin and long-time musical partner Boo Hewerdine

Boo Hewerdine

Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....

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The album was to be her last for a major record label, Blanco y Negro

Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records, a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records.Blanco y Negro was home to such artists as Bananarama, Everything But the Girl, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dream Academy, Dinosaur Jr., Bernthøler, A House, Catatonia, The...

 (Warners) and Reader would later agree a deal with UK independent label Rough Trade

Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...

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Track listing

1. "Kiteflyer’s Hill" (Mark E. Nevin) - 6:06
2. "Prayer Wheel" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:45
3. "Postcard" (Eddi Reader/Calum MacColl) - 4:04
4. "Wings on My Heels" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:45
5. "On a Whim" (Ron Sexsmith
   Ron Sexsmith
   Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
   
   ) - 3:09
6. "Hummingbird" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:35
7. "Barcelona Window" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:17
8. "Bell, Book and Candle" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:13
9. "California" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:35
10. "Follow My Tears" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:54
11. "Psychic Reader" (Eddi Reader) - 4:13
12. "Please Don’t Ask Me to Dance" (Boo Hewerdine) - 3:24
13. "Clear" (Eddi Reader/Calum MacColl/Roy Dodds) - 4:39

Personnel

• Eddi Reader: vocals, acoustic guitar
• Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....
  
  : acoustic guitar, bells, additional vocals
• Teddy Borowiecki: keyboards, melodica
• Tim Harries
  Tim Harries
  Tim Harries is a British bass player.Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
  : bass guitar
• Roy Dodds: drums, percussion, hand claps, loop drumming
• Johnny Scott: pedal steel, guitars, mandolin, dobro
• Calum MacColl: electric, slide and high-strung guitar, dulcimer, zither, thumb piano, additional vocal
• Neill MacColl: electric and acoustic guitars, bells
• Graham Henderson: hammond organ, keyboards
• The Electra Strings: strings