Angels & Electricity

Infobox Album | Name = Angels & Electricity
Type = Album
Artist = Eddi Reader


Released = Flagicon|United Kingdom May 11 1998
Flagicon|Japan June 25 1998
Flagicon|United States March 23 1999
Recorded = Barry Hammond (Chipping Norton Studios)
Jon Inskip/James Loughrey (Britannia Row)
Jeremy Gil (The Roundhouse
Roy Dodds (at his house)
Genre = Folk
Length = 57:41
Label = Blanco y Negro
Producer = Eddi Reader
Boo Hewerdine
Reviews = *Entertainment Weekly [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272917,00.html link]
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gvfoxqrjldse link]
Last album = Candyfloss and Medicine (1996)
This album = Angels & Electricity
Next album = Simple Soul (2001)

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

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

#"Kiteflyer’s Hill" (Mark E. Nevin) - 6:06
#"Prayer Wheel" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:45
#"Postcard" (Eddi Reader/Calum MacColl) - 4:04
#"Wings on My Heels" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:45
#"On a Whim" (Ron Sexsmith) - 3:09
#"Hummingbird" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:35
#"Barcelona Window" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:17
#"Bell, Book and Candle" (Boo Hewerdine) - 4:13
#"California" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:35
#"Follow My Tears" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 4:54
#"Psychic Reader" (Eddi Reader) - 4:13
#"Please Don’t Ask Me to Dance" (Boo Hewerdine) - 3:24
#"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