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Track listing

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Recording

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Personnel

;Eels * Orest Balaban –

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, and

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

on "Hot and Cold" * Steve Crum –

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* E – Vocals,

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, and keyboards *

Lisa Germano Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album '' Geek the Girl'' (1994) was named one of the best albums of the 1990s by ''Spin'' magazine. She began her career as a viol ...

– Guitar and

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*Probyn Gregory – trumpet, trombone, banjo, melodica, guitar * David Hlebo –

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;Production *E –

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* Dan Hersch – Mastering

References

External links

NME review

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