Miranda Sex Garden – Suspiria

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01 Ardera Sempre
02 Open Eyes
03 Sunshine
04 Distance
05 Play
06 In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
07 Bring Down the Sky
08 Feed
09 Inferno
10 Willie Biddle and His Waltzing Maggot
11 My Funny Valentine

The group's second full-length album finds Miranda Sex Garden going in a rock direction.

Loud guitars and pounding drums mix with droning cellos and sawing violins on songs such as "Open Eyes.

" Even the group's vocal style is more pungent and aggressive, with the heretofore dulcet tones of the group now transformed into wild, banshee-like shrieks and snarls.

Despite the radical changes in direction, the group still manages to create a powerful and individual album in Suspiria.

Along with Madra, it's one of the group's best efforts.

His Name is Alive - Mouth by Mouth (93)

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01 Baby Fish Mouth
02 Lip
03 Cornfield
04 In Every Ford
05 Lord, Make a Channel of Your Peace
06 Drink, Dress, and Ink
07 Where Knock is Open Wide
08 Can't Go Wrong Without You
09 Jack Rabbits
10 Sort Of
11 Sick
12 Blue Moon
13 Ear
14 Lemon Ocean
15 The Torso
16 The Dirt Eaters

1993's Mouth by Mouth marks a high point in His Name Is Alive's career, consolidating the band's musical elements — sweet vocals, technicolor production, evocative guitar work, and arty arrangements — into 16 songs that are as diverse as they are cohesive.

Memories of Michigan summertimes, Theodore Roethke's poetry, and sensuality collide, creating the fractured sugar-pop of "Baby Fish Mouth" and "Lip," which sit comfortably beside the stark, cello-driven "Cornfield."

The band's sinister side pops up on "Ear," a deadpan retelling of Vincent van Gogh's self-amputation.

Mouth by Mouth "rocks" more than any of the band's previous work, thanks to the continued involvement of the Dirt Eaters; they are credited with the album's louder songs, such as the fuzzed-out "Drink, Dress and Ink" and "The Torso.