Lift (Love and Rockets album)

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Lift
Studio album by Love and Rockets
Released 13 October 1998
Genre Alternative rock, Electronic
Length 69:08
Label Red Ant
Producer Love and Rockets, Doug de Angelis
Professional reviews
Love and Rockets chronology
Sweet F.A.
(1996)		 Lift
(1998)

Lift is the seventh and final album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1998 on Red Ant.

Lift overlooked the harder rock of Sweet F.A. in favor of Hot Trip to Heaven's electronic sound. The album produced three singles: the club-oriented "Resurrection Hex," which features samples of Bauhaus' "Stigmata Martyr" and "In the Night"; the pop-oriented "Holy Fool," featuring background vocals by Luscious Jackson's Jill Cunniff; and the promo-only, acronym-laden electronica trip "R.I.P. 20 C."

The sound and title of "Resurrection Hex" instantly fed rumors of a much-anticipated Bauhaus reunion, which was officially announced almost immediately upon release of the record. The simultaneous bankruptcy of the Red Ant label—on which Peter Murphy was also an artist—and the subsequent success of the 1998-99 Bauhaus Resurrection tour led to the ultimate demise of Love and Rockets as a project.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Lift (Malibu Mix)" – 4:16
  2. "R.I.P. 20 C." – 6:40
  3. "Holy Fool" – 3:22
  4. "Too Much Choice" – 4:50
  5. "Pink Flamingo" – 3:53
  6. "Delicious Ocean" – 4:06
  7. "Ghosts of the Multiple Feature" – 4:42
  8. "Bad for You" – 3:54
  9. "Resurrection Hex" – 6:21
  10. "My Drug" – 8:43
  11. "Deep Deep Down" – 9:18
  12. "Party's Not Over" – 5:10
  13. "Lift" – 4:03

[edit] Personnel