Tracklist
| 1 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Baby Fish Mouth | |
| 2 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Lip | |
| 3 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Cornfield | |
| 4 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – In Every Ford | |
| 5 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Lord, Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace | |
| 6 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Drinks, Dress, & Ink | |
| 7 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Where Knock Is Open Wide | |
| 8 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Can't Go Wrong Without You | |
| 9 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Jack Rabbits | |
| 10 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Sort Of | |
| 11 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Sick | |
| 12 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Blue Moon | |
| 13 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Ear | |
| 14 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Lemon Ocean | |
| 15 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – The Torso | |
| 16 | HIS NAME IS ALIVE – The Dirt Eaters |
His Name Is Alive’s third record on 4AD, the first where the band controlled all processes including mixing, saw a marked shift; their most diverse, yet accessible catalogue entry. The project’s soaring growth over time allowed Warren 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.
His Name is Alive, the long-standing ethereal darkwave project of Michigan musician Warren Defever, announces the repressing of the band’s first three records on 4AD – Livonia, Home Is In Your Head, and Mouth By Mouth – available from May 8.
Recently reissued in 2024 as part of a quickly sold-out vinyl boxset entitled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, with audio sourced from the original analogue tapes and remastered by Defever himself, each album will now be available on Standard Black LP and CD (with the CD editions of each record featuring exclusive bonus material sourced from the 2024 boxset).
New His Name Is Alive merchandise will also be available exclusively via the 4AD store, to coincide with these repressings. This includes: a cap bundled with Home is in your Head; a water bottle bundled with Livonia; and a T-shirt bundled with Mouth by Mouth. The items are also available individually.
His Name is Alive has a long history with 4AD, signed to the label in 1989, after label founder Ivo Watts-Russell fell in love with their dark and fragmented sonic inclinations via cassette demos sent in the post. While His Name Is Alive’s sound was in line with the gothic echoes of labelmates Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance, they also had a different, nonpareil quality, something existing on the boundary of this earth and another realm further underground.