Devil Hopping
Cover photography byPeter Ashworth
Studio album by Inspiral Carpets
Released	7 March 1994 (1994-3-7)
Recorded	Parr Street (Liverpool)
Genre	Indie rock
Length	44:38
Label	Mute
Producer	Pascal Gabriel[1]
Inspiral Carpets chronology
Revenge Of The Goldfish (1992) Devil Hopping (1994) Inspiral Carpets The Singles (1995)
Singles from Devil Hopping
"Saturn 5" Released: 10 January 1994[2] "I Want You" Released: 21 February 1994[3] "Uniform" Released: 25 April 1994[4]

Devil Hopping is the fourth studio album from British indie bandInspiral Carpets, released on 7 March 1994 viaMute Records.^[1][5][6] The single version of "I Want You" features vocals byMark E. Smith ofthe Fall.^[7] Mute dropped the band after the release ofDevil Hopping.^[8]

The title of the album came from producerPascal Gabriel's pronunciation of the word "developing."

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Chicago Tribune	[10]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[11]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[12]
NME	8/10[13]

TheChicago Tribune wrote that "with driving guitars and Martyn Walsh's booming bass lines,Devil Hopping edges toward a punchier rock sound."^[10]Trouser Press wrote that "the nearly lifeless music is at best self-parodic; the lyrics are hopelessly trite."^[1]

All tracks byInspiral Carpets.

1. "I Want You" – 3:10
2. "Party in the Sky" – 3:52
3. "Plutoman" – 4:15
4. "Uniform" – 3:54
5. "Lovegrove" – 3:18
6. "Just Wednesday" – 3:43
7. "Saturn 5" – 3:59
8. "All of This and More" – 3:32
9. "The Way the Light Falls" – 4:55
10. "Half Way There" – 3:50
11. "Cobra" – 2:13
12. "I Don't Want to Go Blind" – 4:03

• also released on CD (DUNG 25 CD)

Contains track listing as above, plus a red vinyl 10" featuring the following tracks:

1. "Saturn 5 (Peel Session)" – 3:50
2. "I Want You (Peel Session)" – 3:01
3. "The Way the Light Falls (Peel Session)" – 4:35
4. "Party in the Sky (Peel Session)" – 3:42

• Peel Sessions first broadcast on 13 December 1993.
• also available on CD (LDUNG 25 CD)

• Dung 23 - "Saturn 5" (1994)
• Dung 24 - "I Want You" (w/Mark E. Smith) (1994)
• Dung 26 - "Uniform" (1994)

Inspiral Carpets

• Clint Boon – keyboards, backing vocals
• Craig Gill – drums
• Tom Hingley – lead vocals
• Graham Lambert – guitars
• Martyn Walsh – bass

Technical personnel

• Peter Ashworth –photography
• Dave Buchanan – assistant
• Pascal Gabriel –producer,mixing
• Inspiral Carpets – producer
• Lewis Mulatero – photography
• Sleeve design – Mark Neal & Bill Smith, Bill Smith Studio
• Clif Norrell –engineer, mixing

• 1994 albums
• Inspiral Carpets albums
• Mute Records albums
• Albums produced by Pascal Gabriel

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