one of the songs to feature Atlas' Middle Eastern-inflicted vocals, features a "mysterious," chugging dance beat, whereas "Trip and Glide" combines Atlas' wordless vocals with "Bolan-meets-Seal atmospherics." "This Heaven" flirts with an alternative house style reminiscent of Stereo MC's with its usage of a distorted rap and arousing samples, while its thrust beat and "breathy female panting and cooing" led Wolftree to describe it as "the nineties answer to Donna Summer's awesome dancefloor hit 'I Feel Love', as the more enlightened club DJs in London have already realised." She described the song's style as "sex trance dub or hardbeat world trance." "No Worries" features sitar sounds, while "Voodoo Baby" features tingling keys and a brooding bassline. "Be the Revolution" features wiry and wry vocals from David J and a guitar loop from Louis Metoyer. The title track, which appears halfway through the album, is the first track where Ash uses his signature fuzz bass guitar. Wolfree said of the song: "More than a little reminiscent of Bolan in Twentieth Century Boy mode plus a twinge of Jim Foetus, it’s still a fuck-off hard dance track." Release and reception The band's first album in five years, Hot Trip to Heaven was released on 26 September 1994 by Beggars Banquet in the UK American Recordings in the US. One writer noted the album's scheduled release date coincided with that of the Cult's self-titled album, also that band's comeback album. "Body and Soul" and "This Heaven" were released as singles, though failed to chart. Similarly, while the album did make the CMJ Top 75 Alternative Radio Play chart, reaching number 49 in January 1995, the album ultimately failed to chart highly on any alternative chart, or at all on the pop charts. Many fans of the band were disillusioned by the album. Ash recalled the album was "commercial suicide because we were sort of known as a guitar band. I heard stories of, especially in the U.S., of people taking the CD back and saying, 'This isn't Love and Rockets. I want my money back'." It was also reported that fans of ambient and techno music felt the album's "spacious dance tracks" were compromised by the inclusion of vocals. However, the album was released to generally positive reviews. Fay Wolftree of Hot Press said Hot Trip to Heaven was "their most mature and cohesive work to date" and "the sex album of the