{"id":956,"date":"2009-03-17T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=956"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:39:21","slug":"reivews-hna-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reivews-hna-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reivews – HNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:
\nSource: Wonkavision
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His Name is Alive is unintentionally cryptic. Like how do you pronounce that album title? What are these locks of hair composed with sleeping gerbils (or are those little raccoons? I can\u2019t tell) in the album art. What is this cartoonish bug-eyed monster on the back?<\/p>\n

Lead instrumentalist War, or Warn Defever, clears up some of the mess with a nice explanation for each of the songs on the website. This features actually adds a lot to the album, and it\u2019s something every band should do: explain what they mean. Coming out of Detroit, His Name is Alive has toured with Low and Arab Strap and create electronic folk pop with a dallop of 70s classic rock. Everything seems at the same level, though \u2013 so their quiet whispers in the orchestral \u201cYoungblood\u201d sound just as fierce as the pumping \u201cSangaree.\u201d Or maybe vocalist Andrea Moriti just can\u2019t be moved to excitement. David Bowie likes the band and compared Moriti to Karen Carpenter, which is as fair an assessment as anything else.<\/p>\n

This really is as organic as electronic synths and organs can get. His Name is Alive has a hushed nature that is like a run-on sentence, but when they perk up, it rouses everyone to attention, such as with the closer, \u201cCome To Me.\u201d That\u2019s one of the best funk beats to come out in awhile, but once again Moriti doesn\u2019t quite do it justice, making it ripe for remix. \u201cXMMER\u201d is an album that demands a lot of time to explore and exploit to probe the full goodness that these depths have to offer. [By: Josh Spilker]<\/p>\n

Rating: 3\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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