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Released
  
January/February, 1997

Angels and Deamons at Play (1997)
  
Trust Us (1998)

Release date
  
1997

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
October 1996

Artist
  
Motorpsycho

Label
  
Stickman Records

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Length
  
58:34 (single CD) 73:19 (triple-CDEP-box) 78:45 (double LP)

Producer
  
Motorpsycho & Deathprod

Similar
  
Motorpsycho albums, Rock music albums

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Angels and Daemons at Play is the sixth full-length studio album by the Norwegian rock-band Motorpsycho.

Contents

The album was originally released as three EP's; "Babyscooter" (released January 27), "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" (February 3) and "Lovelight" (February 10). Only 500 copies were pressed of each.

It was later also released as a single CD and double-LP.

The cover art was made by Kim Hiorthøy.

Single CD version

0. "Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – 1:28 (Rewind from start)
1. "Sideway Spiral" – 2:33
2. "Walking on the Water" – 4:19
3. "Heartattack Mac" – 7:41
4. "Pills, Powders + Passion Plays" – 3:24
5. "In the Family" – 5:24
6. "Un Chien d'espace" – 13:40
7. "Sideway Spiral II" – 3:21
8. "Like Always" – 3:39
9. "Stalemate" – 4:55
10. "Starmelt/Lovelight" – 3:30
11. "Timothy's Monster" – 4:16

Double LP version

Side 1
  1. "Sideway Spiral" – 2:33
  2. "Walking on the Water" – 4:19
  3. "Heartattack Mac" – 7:41
  4. "Pills, Powders + Passion Plays" – 3:24
Side 2
  1. "In the Family" – 5:24
  2. "Un Chien d'espace" – 13:40
Side 3
  1. "Back to Source" - 6:34
  2. "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" - 13:51
  3. "Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – 1:38
Side 4
  1. "Sideway Spiral II" – 3:21
  2. "Like Always" – 3:39
  3. "Stalemate" –4:55
  4. "Starmelt/Lovelight" – 3:30
  5. "Timothy's Monster" – 4:16

The original EPs

Babyscooter

  1. "Sideway Spiral" – 2:33
  2. "Walking on the Water" – 4:19
  3. "Heartattack Mac" – 7:41
  4. "Pills Powders + Passion Plays" – 3:24
  5. "In the Family" – 5:24

Have Spacesuit Will Travel

  1. "Un Chien d'espace" – 13:40
  2. "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" – 13:51
  3. "Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – 1:38

Lovelight

  1. "Sideway Spiral II" – 3:21
  2. "Like Always" – 3:39
  3. "Stalemate" – 4:55
  4. "Starmelt/Lovelight" – 3:30
  5. "Timothy's Monster" – 4:16
  6. "Atlantis Swing" - 1:08

Songwriters

"Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – O.H. Moe;
"Sideway Spiral I", "Like Always", "Back to Source" – Ryan/Sæther;
"Walking on the Water", "Pills, Powders + Passion Plays", "In the Family", "Stalemate" – Sæther;
"Heartattack Mac", "Sideway Spiral II", "Starmelt/Lovelight", "Timothy's Monster", "Un Chien D'espace" – Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther;
"Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" – Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther/Henlein
"Atlantis Swing" – unknown, but possibly Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther/Fagervik

Performers

Bent Sæther — vocals, bass, electric & acoustic guitars, piano, mellotron, rhodes, moog taurus, percussion; drum solo on "Sideway Spiral I"
Hans Magnus Ryan — vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass, double bass, piano, organ, vibraphone, moog taurus, percussion; drums on "Atlantic Swing"
Håkon Gebhardt — drums, percussion, banjo, piano, vocals

Ole Henrik Moe — alto + soprano saw, piano, violin
Deathprod — oscillators, echoplex, reverators, ring modulators
Morten Fagervik — guitar on "Atlantis Swing"

Songs

1Sideway Spiral2:34
2Walkin on the Water / You Lied4:20
3Heartattack Mac7:42

References

Angels and Daemons at Play Wikipedia
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