Ft Lake [Import]

His Name Is Alive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2005)
• Original Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 4AD
• ASIN: B00000APQ0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best album and one of my favorites, November 19, 1998

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Doolittle (Portland, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ft Lake (Audio CD)

This album deserves 5 stars on many aspects. I love HNIA for their pop songs tinged with a little perversity here and there. Musically, this album is their most rockin' and groovin'. The beautiful layers of melodies and noises are still there but now there is a fine groove underneath. Vocally, this album is more diverse with two female and one male singer trading off songs. Lyrically, sex is a main theme but it is not at all trite as is with most rock songs. It is sweet and truly erotic. The imagery is never boring. There is so much depth in this album. And just kicks some of the electronic segues between songs are just as good as your favorite Aphex Twin or u-ziq songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HNIA's truly "band" album, sex-obsessed and groovy, June 25, 2001

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ft Lake (Audio CD)

Warn Defever is a genius, truly. Over the last 11 years his project His Name is Alive has covered myriad musical genres and displayed impressive talent in songwriting, instrumentation, and productions. FT. LAKE, HNIA's 1998 album, is perhaps Defever's most instantly likeable release.

Here on FT. LAKE the atmosphere is more of collaboration than Defever's single-handed directing. Defever has brought together many of his past singers and instrumentalists, such as Karin Oliver and Trey Many, as well as some new faces. Lovetta Pippin, who's sang in the gospel choir of the last song on STARS ON E.S.P. (and who will be the centerpiece of HNIA's next album, SOMEDAY MY BLUES...), here bestows her soul charm on three tracks. The track lyrics are saturated with cleverly-hidden sexual-innuendo, just like with most HNIA albums, and any HNIA fan will be happy to see that, if Warren's got his mind in the gutter, at least he's being creative about it.

The songs on FT. LAKE are an interesting mesh of oldies, 70's guitar-heavy R&B, and Warn's own electronic stylings. This album, in a HNIA first, features guitar-jams, here on the songs "Rock and Roll Girl..." and "Wish I Had A Wishing Ring" (the latter had to be cut from 17 minutes of Hendrix-style jamming).

This album is one of the best introductions to His Name is Alive, even though Warn's already moved past its style (SOMEDAY MY BLUES will be straight-out R&B). FT. LAKE is a pure rock n' roll experience, and is so much better than anything you would hear on the radio. If you like FT. LAKE, I recommend the "Can't Always be Loved" single, which includes the radio edit of that song as well as the full-length version of "Wish I Had a Wishing Ring."

5.0 out of 5 stars HNIA's best album, October 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Ft Lake (Audio CD)

I've been a HNIA fan since I first heard "Home Is In Your Head" almost 10 years ago. The band has produced a truly eclectic catalog of albums, spanning a variety of different styles. This album showcases their more recent direction, which is more band-oriented and relies heavily on Lovetta Pippin's soulful vocals. Unlike the more recent album, this one still includes other vocalists as well, and that makes for a more interesting listen.