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His Name Is Alive

His Name Is Alive is an experimental rock band/project from Livonia, Michigan. After several self-released cassettes, they debuted on 4AD Records in 1990, starting a long run at the label...

's follow-up to 2006's Detrola

Detrola

Detrola is an album by His Name Is Alive, released in 2006. Four years after being dropped from the 4AD roster, HNIA released this album on their own Silver Mountain Media Group label...

, released in the USA on September 18, 2007. Stylistically, it is very similar to its predecessor, featuring a wide variety of the many styles the band had explored in the past. In Warn Dever

Warren Defever

Warren Defever is a musician and producer from Livonia, Michigan. He is most known for his chameleonic project His Name Is Alive, though he is active in numerous other circles...

's notes on the album (available on the band's website), it becomes apparent that he meant the album as a follow-up or companion piece to Detrola; "Go To Hell Mountain" is even described as a sequel to the previous album's "I Thought I Saw You Moving." One major difference is that singer Andy FM, who shared vocal duties with HNIA veterans Erika Hoffman and Lovetta Pippen on Detrola, sings every track here.

An instrumental version of the album was made available as a paid MP3 download from the Silver Mountain Media website on October 2, 2007.

Track listing

1. "Young Blood" – 3:07
2. "Go to Hell Mountain" – 3:43
3. "The Wolf Put His Mouth on Me" – 3:47
4. "How Dark Is Your Dark Side" – 4:43
5. "What Color Was the Blood" – 3:11
6. "Oh Miss Flower" – 1:12
7. "Put It in Your Mind" – 3:42
8. "Sangaree" – 2:57
9. "Intra Ultra" – 1:06
10. "Come Out the Wilderness" – 3:56
11. "When You Fall for Someone" – 3:01
12. "Come to Me" – 3:47