Express (album)

Express is the second studio album by English rock band Love and Rockets. It was released on 15 September 1986 on Beggars Banquet Records. An even greater departure from the band members' previous work as Bauhaus, the album's fusion of underground rock with pop stylings can be seen as an early example of alternative rock music, a genre that reached mainstream popularity in the early 1990s.

"Kundalini Express" was featured in the 1986 Italian horror film Demons 2 and appeared on an episode of the T.V. show Miami Vice.

Reception
In their retrospective review, AllMusic gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, writing, "rich in sonic detail, the neo-psychedelic Express offers a listening experience like no other album – guitars spiral to dizzying heights from beds of sound, arrangements swirl, songs change and mutate."

Release history
In 2001, the album was remastered and expanded to include two single remixes and several contemporaneous B-sides, including a cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam". Two short experimental pieces that had been found on the studio tape masters labelled as "B Side #1" and "B Side #2" were also added. "Ball of Confusion" was released before Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, but since the USA mix could not be fit on the reissue of that album, it was appended to the Express reissue.

Personnel

 * Love and Rockets


 * Daniel Ash – guitar, saxophone, vocals
 * David J – bass guitar, vocals
 * Kevin Haskins – drums, synthesizer


 * Additional personnel


 * Allan Baker – choir master
 * Alan Brookes – choir vocalist on "An American Dream"
 * James Lowry – choir vocalist on "An American Dream"
 * John A. Rivers – additional keyboards
 * Robert Willey – choir vocalist on "An American Dream"


 * Production
 * Love and Rockets – sleeve design
 * Mitch Jenkins – sleeve photography