It's a Love Cult

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It's a Love Cult
It's a Love Cult cover
Studio album by Motorpsycho
Released September 30, 2002
Recorded 2001/2002
Genre Psychedelic
Length 50:09
Label Stickman Records
Producer(s) Motorpsycho, Deathprod
Professional reviews
Motorpsycho chronology
Phanerothyme
(2001)
It's A Love Cult
(2002)
Black Hole/Blank Canvas
(2006)


It's a Love Cult is the tenth full length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Überwager Or A Billion Bubbles In My Mind – 5:36
  2. Circles – 3:59
  3. Neverland – 4:01
  4. This Otherness – 6:30
  5. Carousel – 7:16
  6. What if... – 4:15
  7. The Mirror And The Lie – 6:43
  8. Serpentine – 5:15
  9. Custer's Last Stand (One More Daemon) – 4:06
  10. Composite Head – 2:25
  • #1, #2, #4, #7, #9 by Sæther.
  • #3, #5, #10 by Ryan/Sæther.
  • #8 by Ryan.
  • #6 by Gebhardt.
  • Orchestral arrangements on #5, #7 by B. Slagsvold.
  • Horn/reed arrangement on #6 by L. Horntveth, H. Gebhardt.

[edit] Personnel

  • Bent Sæther: Bass, vocals, guitars, piano, harmonium, mellotron, percussion, viscount organ
  • Hans Magnus Ryan: Guitars, vocals, rhodes piano, ARP, sidstation, electric harmonium, viscount organ, percussion, lap-steel
  • Håkon Gebhardt: Drums, vocals, banjo, percussion, zither, guitars, glockenspiel, lap-steel

with:

  • Helge Sten (Deathprod): Audio virus, echoplex, filters, theremin, percussion
  • Baard Slagsvold: Piano, vocals, mellotron, clavinette, hammond organ

and:

  • Strings played by: Øyvind Fossheim, Vegard Johnsen, André Orvik, Hans Morten Stensland, Jon W. Sønstebø & Anne Britt Søvig Årdal
  • Horns and reeds played by: Ketil Vestrum Einarsen, Lars Horntveth, Anne-Grethe Orvik, Øyvind Brække, Mathias Eick.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The sleeve was designed by Kim Hiorthøy.
  • The album was preceded by the EP release of "Serpentine", for which also a video was made. (It can be viewed on this dutch VPRO 3voor12 site: [1])