| His Name Is Alive / Last Night |
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| Album: | Last Night | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | His Name Is Alive | Added: | Dec 2002 | |
| Label: | 4AD | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-01-20 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-24 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 23 | Feb 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 02, 2015: | Breakaway Radio Bluff I Been Good Up Till Now | 4. | Nov 18, 2009: | Lost Verses Crawlin' | |
| 2. | May 16, 2013: | The Sunset Life Maybe | 5. | May 31, 2007: | Finneman's Market I Have Special Powers | |
| 3. | Jan 30, 2011: | YOUTH DEMOGRAPHIC RADIO (TM) Devil's Night | 6. | May 17, 2007: | Finneman's Epiphany Someday My Prince Will Come |
| Album Review |
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| Red West Reviewed 2003-01-08 | ||
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For those of you not familiar with HNIA: essense of 70's lite-rock fem vocalists, a-la Roberta Flack, with current production sound and indie sensability. Rainy night music, meloncholy lite. Top notch production. Some tracks are long, 8 to 11 mins, but they don't drag, they jam and move along nicely. Everything's good on here. For you old-skool 4ad fans: Put aside your memories of Livonia, the otherworldly songs of alienation and abruptly halting melodies are yesteryear's- mostly. They discovered rock in '97 (quite fun IMHO, "Nice Day" is my favorite release) and have become more expressive with a wider range of moods and sounds. That said- there are some tracks on here for you! The 70's soul peaked on their previous release, "Someday my blues..."- this release has nods back to their early days. Appropriate as this is HNIA's farewell to 4ad, they're going the way of Frank Black. Tracks for old-skool 4ad fans, introspective: 1.A short instrumental, strings & echos (think interlude off "filigree & shadow")-fades into 2 5.Piano, acoustic guitar, voices, no effects so it might not really fit in the old4ad-section. But her singing is more in the old style than soulful. Could be a seague to goth. +6.vibraphone & cello, slow, instrumental like 1 8.Short song of insecurity. +11.Mellow and wistful. This is tough because the intro is 4ad-ish and there's this electric guitar bit that's soo 10-years-ago in there, the vox and some other guitar bits are very new-skool though. It's a nice synergy of old & new HNIA. +13. slow, loose, some acoustic guitar and off kilter sax, first half is instrumental, minimal production, sounds like a rehearsel. A Jimi Hendrix cover?! this & 6 are sublime Their "current sound": +2. excellent jazzy lite-rock number. This so belongs on AM radio. last 55 seconds are a cool impressionist instrumental jam, a good setup for the next track. 3.mid-slow, steady simple beat, vibraphone, admonishing song +4.Indie-pop, lite, title may be "teardrops" but they make a rainbow, catchy. Ida cover. 7.this is "daytime" music, still laid back. +9.Opens w/funky drum break and boppy sax! Funk/soul jam, fun, lots of sax noodling. 10.mid-slow, cool +12.Funk/rock, some wah pedal and overdrive. Get down. | ||
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