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His Name Is Alive – Home Is In Your Head (CD)

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Warren Defever was barely out of his teens when His Name Is Alive signed to 4AD in the early 1990s, joining a roster that included Cocteau Twins and Pixies at the label's most adventurous peak. Recorded in Defever's Michigan home studio, the project always had an outsider, bedroom-auteur quality that felt genuinely strange rather than studied, making it one of the more singular American voices in the 4AD catalog.

The band's second album with 4AD, recorded in Warren Defever's home studio and remixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer (as with their debut), sees 23 songs quick-firing through emotions, with moments of soothing calm soon clashing with white noise and visceral chaos. Highlights include "Her Eyes Were Huge", on which lightly strummed acoustic guitar uplift Karin Oliver's swooning, gossamer drawl; the synth-led, inquisitive and prickly "Are We Still Married?"; and pensive instrumental waltz "Siting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking". A varied yet grounded compilation of new material and old (some dating back to Defever's junior high days), it finds the band entering a confident creative stride, leaving listeners enthralled by both it's beauty and darkness and proving Defever's inspired productions utterly unique. "Dark, disturbing, and beautiful [...] Held together by Warren Defever's artful production, it's 23 songs range from jealous contemplation to spiritual concerns, from gentle folk to white noise guitar outbursts. Karin Oliver's supple voice lends itself to an array of musical and emotional settings." - AllMusic

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Are You Coming Down This Weekend? (0:18)
2. Her Eyes Were Huge Things (1:37)
3. The Charmer (2:14)

Song Of Schizophrenia

1. Hope Called In Sick (1:36)
2. My Feathers Needed Cleaning (2:27)
3. The Well (2:25)

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1. There's Something Between Us And He's Changing My Words (1:20)
2. The Phoenix, A Pool Of Ice (0:50)
3. Are We Still Married? (2:51)
4. Put Your Finger In Your Eye (0:44)
5. Home Is In Your Head (2:23)
6. Why People Disappear (4:17)
7. Here Eyes Are Huge (1:11)
8. Save The Birds (0:23)
9. Chances Are We Are Mad (2:37)
10. Mescalina (0:48)
11. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking (3:25)
12. Very Bad A Bitter Hand (3:02)
13. Beautiful And Pointless (2:25)
14. Tempe (3:25)
15. Spirit And Body (1:49)
16. Love's A Fish Eye (3:32)
17. Dreams Are Of The Body (0:47)
18. (silence) (0:10)
19. The Other Body (1:42)

Bonus Tracks

1. Man On The Silver Mountain (3:46)
2. Are We Still Married? (2:58)
3. Is This The Way The Tigers Do? (3:37)
4. We Hold The Land In Great Esteem (4:02)
5. The Dirt Eaters (Original Version) (3:43)
6. Tempe (Rehearsal) (3:19)
7. Her Eyes Were Huge Things (Live) (2:37)
8. Dreams Are Of The Body (Live) (2:19)
9. Man On The Silver Mountain (Demo) (2:57)
10. Mass (1:21)
11. Slow Train Crash (0:46)

UPC: 191400041028
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: CD