''Pocket Revolution'' is the fourth studio album by

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, released in 2005. The cover art is based on ''The Von Neumann-Machine'', a story from

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'' series of graphic novels. ''Pocket Revolution'' was the first

studio album to be released in six years, since ''The Ideal Crash'' in 1999. The band featuring Craig Ward and Danny Mommens disintegrated during its recording. Ward, who was supposed to produce the record, left the band in August 2004, soon followed by Mommens. They were replaced by ex-

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guitarist

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and bass player Alan Gevaert, who completed the recording of the album. Other contributions include

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doing backing vocals on ''Pocket Revolution'' and ''Sun Ra'',

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, and

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(who used to play guitar with dEUS on ''The Ideal Crash tour''). The release of the album was followed by a one-year tour that led the band through

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and to the

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and

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. It was the longest tour dEUS ever did. ''Pocket Revolution'' became the best selling dEUS record in Belgium, selling more than 50,000 copies - making it Platinum. The album sold about 200,000 copies worldwide.Pocket Revolution - The unofficial Deus-weblog
/ref> In December 2006, ''Pocket Revolution'' was re-released as ''Pocket Revolution Burnt''. It contains a bonus cd with seven songs from the album remixed by

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, titled ''The Jagz Kooner Excursions''. In February 2007, a ''Pocket Revolution songbook'' with lyrics and chords for all twelve songs of the album was released by Beriato Group. It is the first songbook to be dedicated to dEUS .

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

*"7 Days, 7 Weeks" (August 2005) *"

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" (March 2006) *"Bad Timing" (download only release, June 2006)

References

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