Hot Trip to Heaven is the fifth studio album

Studio album

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 by British alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 band Love and Rockets

Love and Rockets (band)

Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J , and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...

, released in 1994 on American, after Beggar's Banquet dropped the band for not creating a successful follow-up single to So Alive.

Background

Hot Trip to Heaven exchanged much of the band's former gothic

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 sound in favor of a hi-tech electronic

Electronic music

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, ambient

Ambient music

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 direction. The incorporation of dancier

Dance music

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 elements—especially evident in the lead single "This Heaven"—largely worked against the band commercially, despite their ever-present psychedelic

Psychedelic music

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 focus. This resulted in the album alienating much of their core college rock

College rock

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 audience instead of attracting new listeners.

Love and Rockets would return to guitar-based alternative rock on their next album, 1996's Sweet F.A., before further exploring electronic music

Electronic music

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 on their swan song

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, 1998's Lift

Lift (Love and Rockets album)

Lift is the seventh and final studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1998 on Red Ant Records.- Background :Lift overlooked the harder rock of Sweet F.A. in favor of Hot Trip to Heavens electronic sound...

.

Track listing

1. "Body and Soul" – 14:14
2. "Ugly" – 7:25
3. "Trip and Glide" – 5:19
4. "This Heaven" – 7:08
5. "No Worries" – 7:13
6. "Hot Trip to Heaven" – 7:34
7. "Eclipse" – 2:18
8. "Voodoo Baby" – 3:25
9. "Be the Revolution" – 6:43
10. "Set Me Free" – 2:44

Personnel

• Daniel Ash
  Daniel Ash
  Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...
  
   – guitar, saxophone
  Saxophone
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  , and vocals
• David J
  David J
  David John Haskins , better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets....
  
   – bass and vocals
• Kevin Haskins
  Kevin Haskins
  Kevin Haskins also known as Kevin Michael Dompe is a drummer best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets...
  
   – drums and synthesizers