Hot Trip to Heaven

Hot Trip to Heaven
Studio album by Love and Rockets
Released	26 September 1994
Genre	Ambient techno[1]
Length	64:03
Label	American
Producer	Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets chronology
Love and Rockets (1989) Hot Trip to Heaven (1994) Sweet F.A. (1996)
Singles from Hot Trip to Heaven
"This Heaven" Released: September 1994 "Body and Soul" Released: December 1994

Hot Trip to Heaven is the fifth studio album by British rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1994 on Beggars Banquet in the United Kingdom and American in the United States. Released after a five-year hiatus, the album saw the band drop their former gothic, alternative rock sound in favour of a hi-tech electronic, ambient direction, taking influences from ambient techno artists such as The Orb and Orbital, while retaining the band's psychedelic focus. The group were first intrigued in making electronic music at the start of the decade.

The songs on Hot Trip to Heaven are longer than those on Love and Rockets' previous albums, encompassing a broader tonal range. Natacha Atlas, with whom drummer Kevin Haskins worked during the band's hiatus, performs additional vocals and percussion on the record, lending it a world music influence. Promoted by the singles "Body and Soul" and "This Heaven", Hot Trip to Heaven was released to indifference from fans, alienating much of their core college rock audience, and was a commercial failure. However, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised the band's radical new direction, with some calling the album sensual and among the band's greatest work to date. Lead singer Daniel Ash remains proud of the album.