Warren Defever’s beloved, long-standing ethereal darkwave project His Name Is Alive has a long history with 4AD, and in celebration of the band’s early works, 4AD are proud to be releasing the strictly limited, Deluxe 6xLP, 63-track Boxset entitled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, available September 27 exclusively on the 4AD webstore and Bandcamp.
This essential collectible compiles the first three His Name Is Alive albums (Livonia, Home Is In Your Head, and Mouth By Mouth), sourced from the original analogue tapes and painstakingly remastered by Defever himself (at Third Man Mastering), with three additional LPs of rich, bonus material and unreleased tracks (including The Dirt Eaters EP). The collection is also accompanied by an extensive 36-page book authored by 4AD biographer Martin Aston, detailing the fascinating story of His Name Is Alive’s early period with previously unseen imagery and ephemera, as well as written contributions from Ivo Watts-Russell, Johnny Jewel, and more.
The collection of only 1,000 Limited Edition Foil-Stamped Numbered copies, delivered in a hard slipcase box, also features overall design by Chris Bigg (including unique-to-this-release reimagined gatefold sleeves), respectfully reimagined from original Art Direction and Design by Vaughan Oliver/v23. Also in the box includes a replica of each album’s original promotional poster, and a signed print.
TRACKLISTING
LIVONIA (2024 REMASTERED EDITION LP)
1. As We Could Ever
2. E Nicolle (Introduction)
3. If July (2024 Remaster)
4. Some And I
5. Fossil (Verse)
6. E Nicolle
7. Caroline’s Supposed Demon
8. Fossil
9. Reincarnation
10. You And I Have Seizures
11. How Ghosts Affect Relationships
12. Darkest Dreams
13. July (Strings)
14. Caroline (Strings)
15. Fossil (Strings)
16. Ghosts (Strings)
17. Livonia (Ryko Version)
HOME IS IN YOUR HEAD (2024 REMASTERED EDITION)
1. Are You Comin’ Down This Weekend?
2. Her Eyes Were Huge Things
3. The Charmer
4. Hope Called In Sick
5. My Feathers Needed Cleaning
6. The Well
7. There’s Something Between Us And He’s Changing My Words
8. The Phoenix, A Pool Of Ice
9. Are We Still Married?
10. Put Your Finger In Your Eye
11. Home Is In Your Head
12. Why People Disappear
13. Here Eyes Are Huge
14. Save The Birds
15. Chances Are We Are Mad
16. Mescalina
17. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Out
18. Very Bad A Bitter Hand
19. Beautiful And Pointless
20. Tempe
21. Spirit And Body
22. Love’s A Fish Eye
23. Dreams Are of the Body
24. Man on the Silver Mountain
25. Are We Still Married?
26. Is This the Way the Tigers Do?
27. We Hold the Land in Great Esteem
28. The Dirt Eaters (Original Version)
29. Tempe (Rehearsal)
30. Her Eyes Were Huge Things (Live)
31. Dreams Are of the Body (Live)
32. Man on the Silver Mountain (Demo)
33. Mass
34. Slow Train Crash
MOUTH BY MOUTH (2024 REMASTERED EDITION)
1. Baby Fish Mouth
2. Lip
3. Cornfield
4. In Every Ford
5. Lord, Make Me a Channel Of Your Peace
6. Drinks, Dress, and Ink
7. Where Knock Is Open Wide
8. Can’t Go Wrong Without You
9. Jack Rabbits
10. Sort Of
11. Sick
12. Blue Moon
13. Ear
14. Lemon Ocean
15. The Torso
16. The Dirt Eaters
17. The Homesick Waltz
18. Endless Things
19. My Moon’s in Your Yard (Demo)
20. Harmonic Song (Demo)
21. Roky - Demo
22. My Dad (Demo)
23. Gospel (Demo)
24. London Lost (Demo
25. Drink, Dress, Ink (Demo)
26. Baby Fish Mouth (Demo)