His Name is Alive - Xmmer

His Name is Alive is well known for their ethereal, last night meditations but on this new amazing album the band picks straight up where last years Detrola left off. Pitch fork media gave Detrola an 8.5 and described it as "someone singing softly right in your ear".

By adding percolating afrobeat hints (no doubt from Warn Defever's tenure in Nomo) to the lo-fi 70s R'n'B and post-rock electronics of last year's "Detrola," HNIA continues to spin out a skein magically uniting their previously fractured 4AD dreampop and indie-folk discography with their so-called "difficult" albums "Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth" and "Last Night."

Fuzzy classic rock guitar underpins songs that span from the creepy, icy "When You Fall For Someone" to springy plucks on "Come Out The Wilderness," to the irresistable, unpredictable pop grooves of "How Dark Is Your Dark Side" and "Come To Me." It is the sort of electric blues guitar playing -- anethema in indie rock -- that many bands would have to be forgiven for, but HNIA's main man Defever captures a magnetic urgency that comes across as spartan and recedes into the more complex arrangements of kalimba, acoustic strums, and strings.

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