Karin Oliver HIS NAME IS ALIVE Mouth By Mouth 1993 Import Indie Rock 12" 4AD LP

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His Name Is Alive / Mouth By Mouth - 4AD Records CAD-3006 (1993)(UK) ...This auction is for an original, UK Import issue 12" Record.
1993's Mouth by Mouth marks a high point in His Name Is Alive's career, consolidating the band's musical elements -- sweet vocals, technicolor production, evocative guitar work, and arty arrangements -- into 16 songs that are as diverse as they are cohesive. Memories of Michigan summertimes, Theodore Roethke's poetry, and sensuality collide throughout.
  Tracks and reviews listed below
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Detailed item info:

Album Features UPC: 5014436300615 Artist: His Name is Alive Format: LP
Release Year: 1993 Record Label: 4AD (USA) Genre: Experimental Rock, Rock & Pop
Track Listing
(Side One)
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

(Side Two)
1. Jack Rabbits
2. Sort Of
3. Sick
4. Blue Moon
5. Ear
6. Lemon Ocean
7. The Torso
8. The Dirt Eaters

Details Producer: His Name is Alive Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo
Album Notes
His Name Is Alive: Karin Oliver (vocals, cello); Warren Defever (guitar, samples); Trey Many (drums).Additional personnel: Melissa Elliott (guitar); Damian Lang (drums); Elden M., Denise James, Chelle Marie, Karen Neal (background vocals).
All songs written by His Name Is Alive except "In Every Ford," "Jack Rabbits," and "The Dirt Eaters" (Melissa) and "Blue Moon" (LX Clilton).
Personnel: Karin Oliver (vocals, cello); Elden M. (vocals, sound effects); Denise James, Chelle Marie, Karen Neal (vocals); Warren Defever (guitar, sampler); Melissa Elliott (guitar); Damian Lang, Trey Many (drums).
Recording information: Warren's House Recording (1992).
Photographer: Colin Gray.
Creating the fractured sugar-pop of "Baby Fish Mouth" and "Lip," which sit comfortably beside the stark, cello-driven "Cornfield." The band's sinister side pops up on "Ear," a deadpan retelling of Vincent van Gogh's self-amputation. Mouth by Mouth "rocks" more than any of the band's previous work, thanks to the continued involvement of the Dirt Eaters; they are credited with the album's louder songs, such as the fuzzed-out "Drink, Dress and Ink" and "The Torso." An electrified version of "The Dirt Eaters" rounds out Mouth by Mouth, hinting at the group's increasing pop tendencies. His Name Is Alive's spooky, ethereal side is here too, evident on songs like the spiritually inclined "Lord, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace" and the gamelan-pop of "Sort Of." "Can't Go Wrong Without You" manages to be creepy, catchy, and beautiful all at once (surreal stop-motion filmmakers The Brothers Quay made a fittingly eerie video for this song). The blissed-out cover of Big Star's "Blue Moon" and the Roethke-inspired "Where Knock Is Open Wide" add a dreamy, folky feel to Mouth by Mouth's stylistic mix. A transitional work for a group whose very style is change, Mouth by Mouth begins His Name Is Alive's embrace of more traditional pop styles (for their own purposes, of course) and the departure from their overtly ethereal sound. It's a fresh, fascinating album that improves with repeated listening.

Editorial Reviews
...your standard-issue, introspective ethereal stuff. But on MOUTH BY MOUTH, His Name Is Alive's third record, their ambient strangeness gets interspersed with actual songs...creepy and precise, like music by the Breeders' evil twin...
Alternative Press (19930701)

Ranked #99 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95'
Alternative Press (19950701)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...Defever nimbly meshes ideas from punk, pop, classical minimalists, avant-garde electronics, found sources and beyond into a surprisingly accessible stew, endowed with a terrifying innocence by Karin Oliver's primary school vocals...
Q (19930601)