His Name Is Alive
Detrola
Release Date: Jan 24, 2006
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Reincarnate
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Album Review: Detrola by His Name Is Alive
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
So, they are alive after all. Even the most die-hard His Name Is Alive fans could be forgiven for thinking that the band had broken up -- or at least gone into a deep hibernation -- after the release of their final 4AD album, Last Night. Though Warn Defever and Company were actually busier than ever with special MP3-only releases and albums and EPs on smaller labels like Ypsilanti, En/Of, and Defever's own Time Stereo, the lack of any widely released new material seemed ominous.
Opinion: Very Good
Warren Defever’s makeshift group His Name is Alive is plural by design. Defever is obsessed with the arcana of music making. He is an ideas collector, populating his productivity with pseudonyms, rag-tag side projects, limited CD-Rs and box sets on his Time Stereo label, and an ever-changing cast of players. His Name is Alive’s last two widely released albums, Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth and Last Night, toyed with the building blocks of R&B, soul, jazz and Afrobeat, essaying Defever’s most confident songs at the expense of his fey and conservative 4AD label fan base.