Trans-Love Energies (album)

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Trans-Love Energies
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Studio album by
Released26 September 2011
RecordedMetrosonic Studios, New York City
Genre Electronica [1]
Length54:09 (Standard Edition)
108:11 (Deluxe Edition)
Label Portobello
Producer Richard Fearless
Death in Vegas chronology
Satan's Circus
(2004)
Trans-Love Energies
(2011)
Transmission
(2016)

Trans-Love Energies is the fifth album by British electronica band Death in Vegas. It was released on 26 September 2011 in the United Kingdom via Portobello Records. The track "Your Loft My Acid", featuring guest vocals by Katie Stelmanis, was released as a digital-only single on 18 September 2011. This is the first album in seven years since Satan's Circus .

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Silver Time Machine"Richard Fearless5:09
2."Black Hole"Fearless4:54
3."Your Loft My Acid"Fearless, Katie Stelmanis 7:31
4."Medication"Fearless5:06
5."Coum"Fearless4:41
6."Witchdance"Fearless, Stelmanis4:42
7."Scissors"Fearless4:50
8."Drone Reich"Fearless4:26
9."Lightning Bolt"Fearless5:57
10."Savage Love"Fearless6:58
Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Your Loft My Acid" (Fearless' Trans-House Mix)Fearless, Stelmanis5:06
12."Medication" (Fearless' Nightcrawler Mix)Fearless7:00
13."I.W.Y.L.A"Fearless3:56
14."Fur 74"Fearless5:47
15."Heroes"Fearless5:17
16."Coum" (Instrumental)Fearless4:46
17."Lightning Bolt" (Instrumental)Fearless6:01
18."Come Ride With Me"Fearless4:26
19."Enforced Peace" (Fearless' Michigan Militia Mix)Fearless5:05
20."Moe Tucker"Fearless6:46

Singles

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
BBC Music (positive) [3]
Clash (7/10) [1]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [4]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME (7/10) [7]
The Quietus (average) [8]
Resident Advisor Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
Slant Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Personnel

Additional credits for the Deluxe Edition

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