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~ His Name Is Alive
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  • Audio CD (22 Jun 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B00000APQ0
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 194,817 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Glue (Don't Glue The World)
2. Everything (Everything Takes Forever)
3. Waitress (The Waitress)
4. No Hiding Place (No Hiding Place Down Here)
5. Can't (Can't Always Be Loved)
6. Wishing Ring (Wish I Had A Wishing Ring)
7. Red (Red Haired Girl)
8. Secret Code (Spirit Needs A Spirit Tool)
9. Up (Up Your Legs Forever)
10. How It Goes (How It's Gotta Be)
11. Don't Make Me Wait (Rock 'n' Roll Girl From Rock 'n' Roll Ci
12. Last Blues (Last American Blues)

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Michigan's His Name Is Alive bristles with art-damaged coyness, but great pop ultimately needs soul--an essence that can't be factored or graphed. Reducing "Good Vibrations" to a template is nothing but a parlor trick. Though FT. LAKE doesn't surrender the ghosts of HNIA's indie past altogether, when Detroit gospel queen Lovetta Pippin lays into "EverythingTakes Forever", churning up a chunky, funky froth, the die has been cast for a new direction.
Once the surprise of hearing this erstwhile ethereal troupe pumping out full-blooded soul subsides, FT. LAKE soars. Warren Defever, HNIA's autonomous mastermind, graciously defers to Pippin and co-producer Steve King (Funkadelic, Aretha Franklin). "Wishing Ring"is a thrill, with Defever peeling off startling Eddie Hazelguitar leads and Pippin belting like a freshly minted MotorCity diva. Pippin returns the reins to HNIA warbler Karin Oliver--who has picked up a few pointers from her soul sisterand sounds much sultrier thereafter. She shines on "How It's Gotta Be", Martha & The Vandellas updated for the Amer-indie set. By FT. LAKE's end, Defever plunges into the shockadelic riff-arama of the final tracks, and HNIA has never sounded more "alive".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Last American Blues... (pop, soul and rock 'n' roll too)., 18 Mar 2001
Fort Lake is a great journey through the last half a century or so of popular music, c/o Warn (sic), Karin, Trey, Chad and new addition, Lovetta Pippen. Lovetta is a discovery of Macy Gray proportions - a genuine soul sensation. What a find! And together they have produced HNIA's most consistent and enjoyable ride. HNIA have existed on the periphery the music industry circus for the last decade, not batting an eyelid, getting on with their own skewed pop vision and with Lovetta's help they truly GOT IT ON! Since Mouth to Mouth, the concepts have loosened to allow a broader musical canvas, (earlier releases Livonia and Home Is In Your Head are somewhat homogenous). As a result, there are some sublime pop, rock and soul wig-outs. "Rock 'n' Roll Girl...", "The Waitress", "Wishing Ring" and "Up Your Legs Forever" are brilliant guitar-led retro pop-rock in imitable Defever style. Totally addictive! "No Hiding Place Down Her","Everything Takes Forever" and "Always Turn Me On" are all soulful and bluesy, while sixties pop is turned edge-ways in "Can't Always Be Loved", "Red Haired Girl" and "Don't Glue The World". All this is only an idea of what to expect; many songs have styles within styles. All those familiar with the HNIA world will understand this and those who aren't should definitely give this world a spin.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Unhinged Soul, Funk & Rock, 12 Dec 2004
By Martin Harley (UK) - See all my reviews
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His Name is Alive continue to change styles & sample musical genres; a process started on their last album & continued here, to produce an effect something like "music you thought you knew, but somehow damaged & mad".

"Fort Lake" is their 5th album, from 1998. It starts with a strange few seconds of 'computer' generated music - as if back in the 50's, this is what they thought the music of the future would sound like - before launching into a pretty fast run-through of distorted electric rock guitars (Wish I had a Wishing Ring" and "Waitress"); Soul (No Hiding Place Down Her); Rockabilly (Red Haired Girl) & a half-dozen other things as well. As with other His Name is Alive albums, several little musical interludes act as bridges between the songs.

The new recruit from the previous album, Lovetta Pippin, is brilliant and shines everywhere she sings, providing a deep & smokey voice to counterbalance the long-time singer Karin Oliver's sweet, girl-next-door clarity.

The highlights are the rockers: "Wish I Had a Wishing Ring" with spiteful 'my man done me wrong' lyrics and 2 wonderful guitar solos from Warren Defever, and "Rock & Roll Girl from Rock & Roll City", but I also love the funk and bizarre message in "Up Your Legs Forever".

If you're a rock fan, give this a try. Otherwise, I'd not recommend this album as a place to start with His Name is Alive - Try "Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth" from 2001 if you're into Soul/R&B or "Mouth by Mouth" from 1993 if you're a goth. Or, if you're reading this & wondering how one group can deliver such radically different styles, give them a go anyway, start with any album and prepare yourself for a very strange journey.

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