Arcade Fire - Funeral (04)

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01 - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
02 - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
03 - Une Année Sans Lumiere
04 - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
05 - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
06 - Crown of Love
07 - Wake Up
08 - Haiti
09 - Rebellion (Lies)
10 - In the Back Seat

Appliance - Imperial Metric (01)

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1 Separate Animals
2 Map of the Territory
3 FLF
4 Land, Sea, and Air
5 Comrades (In a Moscow Hotel)
6 H2o
7 Skylight
8 AM/PM
9 A Little More Information
10 Navigating the Nursery Slopes
11 A Gentle Cycle Revolution, A
12 Where Has the Space Race Gone?


Appliance cooly navigate a wide range of musical influences on Imperial Metric, from Neu! to Joy Division to the Velvet Underground, and yet they've made a remarkably cohesive album.

Like Tarwater's Silur, the album maintains a subtle afterhours tone, where James Brooks' vocals blend in with spacey electronics and organic guitars.

It's music for late-night relaxation and thoughtful introspection with lyrics that only occasionally give tips toward the ironic underpinnings.

"H20" is vivid and compelling, as Brooks sings that the "H20 in (his) head is running out ... running low" over a slowly percolating, bubbly beat and wobbly sampled sounds.

Anekdoten - Vemod (93)

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1 Karelia
2 The Old Man and The Sea
3 Where Solitude Remains
4 Thoughts in Absence
5 The Flow
6 Longing
7 Wheel

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.

His Name is Alive - Ft. Lake (98)

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01 - Don't Glue the World
02 - Everything Takes Forever
03 - The Waitress
04 - No Hiding Place Down Her
05 - Can't Always be Loved
06 - Wish I Had a Wishing Ring
07 - Red Haired Girl
08 - Spirit Needs a Spirit Tool
09 - Up Your Legs Forever
10 - How it's Gotta Be
11 - Always Turn Me On
12 - Rock 'n' Roll Girl from Rock 'n' Roll City
13 - Last American Blues

His Name Is Alive's fifth 4AD release, Ft. Lake, is their most complex and accomplished, pulling together the dreamy experimentalism of their early work with the poppy, soulful tendencies of Stars on E.S.P and Nice Day, and adding a few new twists.

"The Waitress" adds drum machines and keyboards for a new wave sheen, while the slinky "No Hiding Place Down Her" has enough soul for a dozen Top 40 R&B singles.

As on the Nice Day EP, Lovetta Pippen's voice sounds wonderful, whether she's dueting with Karin Oliver on "Everything Takes Forever" or taking center stage on the epic, Hendrix-inspired "Wish I Had a Wishing Rin.