Long-running Michigan experimental, ethereal group His Name is Alive are getting a 6-LP box set featuring their three excellent early-’90s albums for 4AD. Titled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, it will be out September 27 exclusively through the 4AD webstore and Bandcamp. They’ve also announced a few fall tour dates which are listed below.
How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993 includes 1990’s Livonia, 1991’s Home Is in Your Head and 1993’s Mouth by Mouth — all newly remastered by HNIA’s Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering — plus a treasure trove of non-LP singles and EPs, demos, unreleased tracks and more, with 77 tracks in total. Check out the tracklist below.
There’s also a 36-page book written by 4AD biographer Martin Aston, featuring previously unseen imagery and ephemera, as well as contributions from 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell, Johnny Jewel, and more. The artwork was designed by Chris Bigg (of 4AD’s iconic ’80s/’90s design firm v23) and includes elements “respectfully reimagined” from the original art direction and design by Vaughan Oliver/v23. The box includes a replica of each album’s original promotional poster and a signed print, and the whole thing is housed in a hard slipcase box. One-thousand copies were pressed and numbered with foil stamp.
You can watch a product shot video for the box set, along with the video for “Are We Still Married,” which was originally released on 4AD’s The 13 Year Itch compilation and directed by The Brothers Quay, below.
As for the fall tour dates, His Name is Alive play Oakland, Los Angeles, NYC (TV Eye on 9/26), Chicago and Detroit. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, August 2 at 10 AM local time. Dates are below.
HIS NAME IS ALIVE – HOW GHOSTS AFFECT RELATIONSHIPS: 1990-1993
LIVONIA (2024 REMASTERED EDITION LP)
01. As We Could Ever
02. E Nicolle (Introduction)
03. If July (2024 Remaster)
04. Some And I
05. Fossil (Verse)
06. E Nicolle
07. Caroline’s Supposed Demon
08. Fossil
09. Reincarnation
10. You And I Have Seizures
11. How Ghosts Affect Relationships
12. Darkest Dreams
13. July (Strings)
14. Caroline (Strings)
15. Fossil (Strings)
16. Ghosts (Strings)
17. Livonia (Ryko Version)
HOME IS IN YOUR HEAD (2024 REMASTERED EDITION)
01. Are You Comin’ Down This Weekend?
02. Her Eyes Were Huge Things
03. The Charmer
04. Hope Called In Sick
05. My Feathers Needed Cleaning
06. The Well
07. There’s Something Between Us And He’s Changing My Words
08. The Phoenix, A Pool Of Ice
09. Are We Still Married?
10. Put Your Finger In Your Eye
11. Home Is In Your Head
12. Why People Disappear
13. Here Eyes Are Huge
14. Save The Birds
15. Chances Are We Are Mad
16. Mescalina
17. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Out
18. Very Bad A Bitter Hand
19. Beautiful And Pointless
20. Tempe
21. Spirit And Body
22. Love’s A Fish Eye
23. Dreams Are of the Body
24. Man on the Silver Mountain
25. Are We Still Married?
26. Is This the Way the Tigers Do?
27. We Hold the Land in Great Esteem
28. The Dirt Eaters (Original Version)
29. Tempe (Rehearsal)
30. Her Eyes Were Huge Things (Live)
31. Dreams Are of the Body (Live)
32. Man on the Silver Mountain (Demo)
33. Mass
34. Slow Train Crash
MOUTH BY MOUTH (2024 REMASTERED EDITION)
01. Baby Fish Mouth
02. Lip
03. Cornfield
04. In Every Ford
05. Lord, Make Me a Channel Of Your Peace
06. Drinks, 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
17. The Homesick Waltz
18. Endless Things
19. My Moon’s in Your Yard (Demo)
20. Harmonic Song (Demo)
21. Roky – Demo
22. My Dad (Demo)
23. Gospel (Demo)
24. London Lost (Demo
25. Drink, Dress, Ink (Demo)
26. Baby Fish Mouth (Demo)
HIS NAME IS ALIVE – 2024 TOUR DATES
Sept 22 – Oakland, CA – New Parish
Sept 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
Sept 26 – New York, NY – TV Eye
Oct 2 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
Oct 5 – Detroit, MI – El Club