- Artist:
- His Name Is Alive
Livonia (2024 Remastered Edition): Black Vinyl LP
£26.99
Release date: 8 May, 2026
His Name Is Alive’s 1990 4AD label debut Livonia cemented the band’s presence among 4AD’s well-established ethereal lineage, reinventing and refracting the label’s sound through a prism. A tender and slightly deranged dream-pop record, it packages nearly ten years of Defever’s home recordings – brought to haunting chorus via the spectral, feminine vocals of Karin Oliver. Produced and mixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and This This Mortal Coil collaborator John Fryer, the record is a powerful opening statement, inviting intrigue via noisy refrains and textural guitar. It examines the dual themes of love and loss, woozily delivered as if dreamlike.
Tracklisting:
1. As We Could Ever
2. E-Nicolle (Introduction)
3. If July
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
- Formats:
- Vinyl LP
- Cat#:
- 4AD409LP