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and bass player Alan Gevaert, who completed the recording of the album. Other contributions include Stef Kamil Carlens doing backing vocals on ''Pocket Revolution'' and ''Sun Ra'',

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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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, 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) *" What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)" (March 2006) *"Bad Timing" (download only release, June 2006)

References

{{Authority control 2005 albums Deus (band) albums V2 Records albums