His Name Is Alive - Mouth By Mouth - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 (InchLord, Make Me A Channel of Your PeaceInch, InchThe Homesick WaltzInch), sugar-sweet 1960s pop (InchBaby Fish MouthInch, InchLipInch), distortion-laden dream-gaze (InchCan't Go Wrong Without YouInch), evocative alt-noise (InchSickInch), or strummy folk (InchWhere Knock Is Open WideInch). 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. InchLike 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.Inch - Bandcamp Daily Album Tracks 1. Baby Fish Mouth 2. Lip 3. Cornfield 4. In Every Ford 5. Lord, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace 6. Drink, Dress, and Ink 7. Where Knock Is Open Wide 8. Can't Go Wrong Without You 9. Jack Rabbits 10. Sort of 11. Sick 12. Blue Moon 13. Ear 14. Lemon Ocean 15. The Torso 16. The Dirt Eaters