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Length
  
57:41

Artist
  
Eddi Reader

Label
  
Blanco y Negro Records

Angels & Electricity (1998)
  
Simple Soul (2001)

Release date
  
11 May 1998

Genre
  
Folk music

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Released
  
11 May 1998 25 June 1998 23 March 1999

Recorded
  
Barry Hammond (Chipping Norton Recording Studios) Jon Inskip/James Loughrey (Britannia Row) Jeremy Gil (The Roundhouse Roy Dodds (at his house)

Producers
  
Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine

Similar
  
Mirmama, Peacetime, Love Is the Way, Candyfloss and Medicine, Sings the Songs of Robert B

Angels & Electricity is the fourth studio album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on 11 May 1998.

Contents

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, "Kiteflyer's Hill" by ex-Fairground Attraction band member Mark Nevin and long-time musical partner Boo Hewerdine.

The album was to be her last for a major record label, Blanco y Negro (Warners) and Reader would later agree a deal with UK independent label Rough Trade.

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) - 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: acoustic guitar, bells, additional vocals
  • Teddy Borowiecki: keyboards, melodica
  • Tim Harries: 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

    • Songs

    1Kiteflyer's Hill6:07
    2Prayer Wheel4:45
    3Postcard4:04

    References

    Angels & Electricity Wikipedia
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