Someday My Blues Will Cover Th: His Name Is Alive: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Nothing Special

2. Interlude

3. Happy Blues

4. Solitude

5. Write My Name In The Groove

6. Your Cheating Heart

7. Our Last Affair

8. One Year

9. Interlude

10. Karins Blues

11. Are We Still Married

12. Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth

13. Last Time

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The change in direction which Someday My Blue Will Cover The Earth embodies may have been a gradual one for His Name Is Alive but it may still come as a shock (although hopefully a pleasant one) for fans of the one time Cocteau Twins influenced art rockers. This beautifully crafted album is essentially a showcase for the sensuous and hypnotic vocals of gospel singer Lovetta Pippen. But equally, it is a showcase for the production work of Warn Defever, from the muted R&B backing of the "Write My Name In The Groove" to the crackling gramophone-filtered jazz of "Solitude" Defever builds on the drama and atmosphere within each heart-felt track perfectly. "One Year" with its funky bassline and infectious lyrics is a great pop track, sounding not dissimilar to the Sugababes but the lyrics ("if you had a year to live") still stick closely to the blues project which dominates the album. Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth may have been 10 years in the making but as this breathtaking collection of blues influenced soul, jazz and modern R&B demonstrates, good things come to those who wait. --Caroline Butler

Album Description

Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (4AD) is a full-blown collaboration with vocalist Lovetta Pippen, Detroit runaway whose tangled and traumatic life story lies just below the surface of the songs and go a long way to explaining the emotional impact of her singing. The artwork is designed by Vaughan Oliver. His Name Is Alive will be playing on both sides of the Atlantic to support the release of the album.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Underrated, even by HNiA's fans..., Nov 14 2002

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Stopheles (Ridgewood, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someday My Blues Will Cover Th (Audio CD)

This is a truly wonderful album, which is ultimately (and unfortunately) polarizing fans of His Name is Alive. I'm a fan of HNiA's older work, and have always found Warn Defever's strength to be in aesthetic more than in songwriting (not meant as a slight at all) -- on this record, however, Defever's working without the safety net of his trademark sound, and is in fact working with not only a new 'band' arrangement but a remarkably different chanteuse. The songwriting, as a result of not being submerged behind layers of lo-fi patina, had to step up to the task. And it really did. Full songs -- not fragments, not three-line verses -- show what Defever was heading towards in the production and songwriting of STARS ON E.S.P..

Listening to Lovetta Pippin sing on the first few tracks, it's not hard to see what Defever saw in her as a musician -- her voice is the sort of instrument that could only intrigue a musician as wide-reaching as he has been in the past few years. She's got a great tone, a great delivery, and well acts her songs.

Many of these reviews claim that this is not really a HNiA album, that the differences are just too great between this and the quiet, affecting pop on LIVONIA and HOME IS IN YOUR HEAD...I disagree. I hear familiar chord progressions, familiar trickling guitar and cello notes. I hear statements in the lyrics that are as opaque and sad as those in Warn's older work. It's radically different, yes, but no less impressive, no less affecting. It would be wonderful to see this make it to the mainstream, but (for all of the complainers' issues with it sounding 'like Mariah Carey') this is an album that's too idiosyncratic, too intelligent to be properly pushed towards a receptive audience. Sadly, 4AD doesn't seem to know how to push His Name is Alive to anything other than a clove-cigarettes-and-copies-of-Faulkner crowd, which does Pippin and Defever a disservice. This was a very brave move for him to make, and he deserves credit for it.

Really, I think attempting to redo HOME IS IN YOUR HEAD would be selling out much more than would be letting a new relationship with an impressive musician take your music in new directions. More musicians should be so daring.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best album of 2001, Aug 28 2002

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Neil "Neil" (New Orleans) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someday My Blues Will Cover Th (Audio CD)

Most people might think of this album as a sharp 90 degree turn for the band, but I disagree. Owning all albums from the first up until this one, there is a definite path of growth and change, and this album makes perfect sense. I listen - I still hear His Name Is Alive. Their subtle nuances are unmistakable. This album is finely crafted and beautifully thought out and the attention to detail shows. It is one of my all time favorite albums. Their new album will be out 23/Sept/2002, and I can hardly wait... If it is anywhere near the beautiful album 'Somday' is, then we're all in for a second treat.
Neil

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5.0 out of 5 stars The low average rating of this album is shameful., Jun 27 2002

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A. Wakefield "Partial Observer" (Indian Fortress, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someday My Blues Will Cover Th (Audio CD)

All of the close-minded "fans" of HNIA should be ashamed for giving this album one star. I can't stand music fans who want to hear the same thing over and over, and I never expected to read those kind of sentiments from fans of an obscure and diverse band like HNIA.

Bottom line, this disc is one of the best HNIA albums. The sounds come together like nothing else, and the songs are moving. The combination of Lovetta's voice and Warn's sounds is emotionally arresting. You'd have to be emotionless to fail to enjoy this album.

Bottom line, this is crushing stuff that made me want to jump up and down and dance and scream and does all the exciting things the best music can do...

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