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His Name Is Alive – Mouth By Mouth (CD)

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Warren Defever has been quietly building one of indie rock's most singular bodies of work since the late 1980s, treating his Detroit bedroom studio as a laboratory where no sonic boundary holds. Mouth By Mouth arrived in 1994 at a moment when 4AD's aesthetic was at its most expansive, and Defever met that openness with sixteen tracks that pull from gospel, shoegaze, and American folk without ever feeling scattered.

His Name Is Alive's final record on 4AD, the first where the band controlled all processes including mixing, saw a marked shift; their most diverse, yet accessible catalog entry. The project's soaring growth over time allowed Defever to employ an extraordinarily adventuring approach to the record's sound and vision, indulging his love for all kinds of music, be it tastes of looped dub ("Lord, Make Me A Channel of Your Peace", "The Homesick Waltz"), sugar-sweet 1960s pop ("Baby Fish Mouth", "Lip"), distortion-laden dream-gaze ("Can't Go Wrong Without You"), evocative alt-noise ("Sick"), or strummy folk ("Where Knock Is Open Wide"). Embracing the surreal and turning their experimentalism up a notch and with Defever's studio skills truly blossoming, many see this as a high point for the band. "Like a DIY cocktail of My Bloody Valentine's dreamy noise and the wee-hours arthouse sigh of fellow 4AD'ers This Mortal Coil, [Mouth By Mouth] generates a tremolo- and fuzz-laden frenzy underscoring Defever's debt to '60s garage psych." - Bandcamp Daily

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Baby Fish Mouth (2:32)
2. Lip (2:57)
3. Cornfield (3:15)
4. In Every Ford (3:43)
5. Lord, Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace (2:17)
6. Drink, Dress, And Ink (2:30)
7. Where Knock Is Open Wide (2:46)
8. Can't Go Wrong Without You (3:14)
9. Jack Rabbits (1:56)
10. Sort Of (1:07)
11. Sick (3:50)
12. Blue Moon (2:15)
13. Ear (2:02)
14. Lemon Ocean (2:47)
15. The Torso (3:23)
16. The Dirt Eaters (4:47)

Bonus Tracks

1. The Homesick Waltz (4:00)
2. Endless Things (2:56)
3. My Moon's In Your Yard (Demo) (3:03)
4. Harmonic Song (Demo) (4:16)
5. Roky (Demo) (3:24)
6. My Dad (Demo) (3:32)
7. Gospel (Demo) (3:33)
8. London Lost (Demo) (0:55)
9. Drink, Dress, And Ink (Demo) (2:49)
10. Baby Fish Mouth (Demo) (3:16)

UPC: 191400041127
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: CD