His Name Is Alive

The ever-changing project of multi-instrumentalist/producer Warren Defever, His Name Is Alive have explored a record store's worth of musical styles during their decades-spanning career. In the early '90s, they helped define the sound of the arty indie label 4AD with the experimental dream pop of 1990's Livonia, 1991's Home Is in Your Head and 1993's Mouth by Mouth. As time went on, their rotating lineup mirrored their shifting sounds. Defever and company surveyed sunny, Beach Boys-tinged pop on 1996's Stars on ESP just as deftly as they channeled gospel and R&B on 2001's Some...