Home Is in Your Head (2024 Remastered Edition)

Description

The band’s second album with 4AD, recorded in Warren Defever’s home studio and remixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer (as with their debut), sees 23 songs quick-firing through emotions, with moments of soothing calm soon clashing with white noise and visceral chaos. Highlights include `Her Eyes Were Huge’, on which lightly strummed acoustic guitar uplift Karin Oliver’s swooning, gossamer drawl; the synth-led, inquisitive and prickly `Are We Still Married?’; and pensive instrumental waltz `Siting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking’ (synced in 1996’s Jerry Maguire). A varied yet grounded compilation of new material and old (some dating back to Defever’s junior high days), it found the band entering a confident creative stride, leaving listeners enthralled by both its beauty and darkness and proving Defever’s inspired productions utterly unique.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Are You Comin’ Down This Weekend? – His Name Is Alive
2. Her Eyes Were Huge Things – His Name Is Alive
3. The Charmer – His Name Is Alive
4. Hope Called in Sick – His Name Is Alive
5. My Feathers Needed Cleaning – His Name Is Alive
6. The Well – His Name Is Alive
7. There’s Something Between Us and He’s Changing My World – His Name Is Alive
8. The Phoenix, a Pool of Ice – His Name Is Alive
9. Are We Still Married? – His Name Is Alive
10. Put Your Finger in Your Eye – His Name Is Alive
11. Home Is in Your Head – His Name Is Alive
12. Why People Disappear – His Name Is Alive
13. Here Eyes Are Huge – His Name Is Alive
14. Save the Birds – His Name Is Alive
15. Chances Are We Are Mad – His Name Is Alive
16. Mescalina – His Name Is Alive
17. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Out – His Name Is Alive
18. Very Bad a Bitter Hand – His Name Is Alive
19. Beautiful and Pointless – His Name Is Alive
20. Tempe – His Name Is Alive
21. Spirit and Body – His Name Is Alive
22. Love’s a Fish Eye – His Name Is Alive
23. Dreams Are of the Body – His Name Is Alive