How Ghosts Affect Relationships

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How Ghosts Affect Relationships - 6xLP Boxset
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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)