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LukeRogers22
Home Is In Your Head is haunting beyond words and explanations, no album, even after like 700 listens gives me those feelings.
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Lichtjaren
This album (and this band in general) has a lot of things I really don't like, such as the vocals, but I keep coming back to it from time to time because there's just something very intriguing about it. Some bands just have that draw to them.
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hello-cthulhu
I think I saw Warn Defever interviewed once and asked about that. It sounds like it wasn't intentional - the story goes that the name came from something a teacher in a high school class said about Abraham Lincoln. But given that there was and I suppose still is a subsection of Christian indie bands, like on the Tooth & Nail label, and even bands that shared membership with HNIA like Velour 100, he seemed to adopt an attitude of ambiguity about his own religious beliefs. Like, the idea was, he wasn't in a hurry to disabuse anyone of the idea that HNIA was a Christian band, even though the idea seems kind of dubious if you know their musical and lyrical content, because there are HNIA fans who were brought to the band under that assumption.
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raffy_rillo
A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979 - 1990) is a gargantuan compilation that is a must listen to his fans.
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I001598283434
this band is so underrated i often forget about them entirely despite having heard lots of their music
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weimarrepublic
sometimes you get super depressed and fall in love with shitty music like this and then years later when you're no longer depressed you come back to this and think wtf was i thinking during my years of impairment
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FeedbackAltar
Just found out about this band and I'm loving "All The Mirrors In The House". What album should I try after this one?
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FeedbackAltar
I actually found out after some ads on Facebook, so I'm glad I gave the album a shot. I'm considering going with "Mouth by Mouth" or "Livonia" next so far!
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InformTheCube
Stars on ESP was my introduction, and is an amazing album. but their first few are definitely worth a listen too - especially Home Is in Your Head and Mouth By Mouth. also if you can find a copy, check out King of Sweet - pretty uniquely dreamy, druggy, surreal album.
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MachineOfaDream
I got my son a dinosaur toy and asked him what his name is. He said, "His name is Alive"
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yuggoth_spider
Go see them if they come to your town. The new material sounds great live, and they also played songs several songs each from Mouth by Mouth and Stars on ESP, as well as others from their vast back catalogue. Here's my review of the Austin show: http://www.last.fm/user/yuggoth_spider/journal/2015/04/02/6hw87g_austin_sleeps_on_a_legend
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Pdna2
The last release I heard from DeFever and co. was a free jazz tribute to Marion Brown. Now heady concept prog that really does sound like an obscure artifact from the early 70s-- a bit hokey despite the obvious talent. I guess I grew up hearing (and not always enjoying) some of the stuff his name is emulating here. Um, it's about evil twins in the womb of a pregnant woman with all songs from different perspectives. The vocals are all song in overdubbed unison as female harmonies, which as a matter of taste I could live without. Still, the talent, audacity and dedication are impressive.
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beelzbubba
No, not Xtian. From allmusic.com: "Named after history class notes on Abraham Lincoln, the Livonia, MI-based sonic manipulators His Name Is Alive formed when multi-instrumentalist/producer Warren Defever (also of shockabilly group Elvis Hitler) was still in high school. "
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vincent_cheng
I don't think they have any connection to Christianism. Btw, great band. Too bad it took me aeons to really listen to them.
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JBarracudaL
Pretty sure Stars on E.S.P. is one of those stranded-on-an-island albums for me. Never gets old.
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LegoLibertarian
Has anybody heard the Someday RMX album? Happy Blues (Recloose remix) sounds like it has a sample from David Sylvian's Nostalgia on his Brilliant Trees album. Noticed it just now after buying Brilliant Trees.
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animorph365
I'm on my first listen of them (Home Is in Your Head), and I must say, these guys are pretty unique.
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