Mouth By Mouth [Cutout]

His Name Is Alive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Format: Cutout
• ASIN: B00004UD99
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,544,062 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Mouth

2. Lip

3. Cornfield

4. Ford

5. Channel

6. Ink

7. Open Wide

8. Can't

9. Jack

10. Sort Of

11. Sick

12. Blue

13. Ear

14. Lemon

15. Torso

16. Dirt

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dissonance is an art form, July 23, 2000

By 

Jennifer Becker (Kirkland, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mouth By Mouth (Audio CD)

For any fan of 4AD bands or mellow Cadillica tunes this is a deal you can not pass up. Here the guitars know how to scale the walls, and dissonance is an art form. What distinguishes this album is the way the songs are alternatingly brilliant and witless, with a very high ratio of jewels to dross.

Track 3 is haunting, with harmony that will stop you cold. Heidi Berry has two great songs about rivers with similar vocals.

Track 4 is reminiscent of the Darling Buds, with guitars that are a bit timid, unable to caterwaul and make a solid wall of sound the way My Blood Valentine can.

Track 6 rumbles in like a rebuilt hot rod, with echoes of the Pixies, and vocals a la Sleater when Corin isn't screeching.

Track 9 is a jaunty instrumental that gets the guitars wailing and reminds me a bit of the Throwing Muses first album. Maybe that's just 'cause the song's named "Jack Rabbits".

Track 11 has punch, and vocals that get as close to angry as these angelic vocalists get. Which isn't very.

Tracks 15, & 16 dive back into the feedback, let it ricochet, sink, and lap at the buried guilt that all 4 AD bands seem to find as proprietary as the 23 envelope sleeve designs. The guitar pulses, hypnotizes.

The rest of the tracks sound like Area, with saccharine vocals drizzled over the top of it all.

This album has long been one of my favorites. It raises a ruckus in ways the Cocteau Twins & DCD cant, and doesn't bear Ivo's fingerprint of all glimmer, all sparkle. It'll haunt you, so snag it.

Don't pass this up. Just don't.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic pastoral songs with a sinister undercurrent, April 29, 2002

By 

Phil Avetxori - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mouth By Mouth (Audio CD)

Of all the albums I picked up during the post-Nirvana alt-rock frenzy, "Mouth to Mouth" is one of the few that I still listen to with any regularity. Celestial 4AD/Cocteau Twins lushness meets prairie-Protestant American gothic starkness in this eclectic collection of short songs and dream sketches. Although most of the music is light and airy on the surface, there are hints of a Lynchian menace beneath the three-square checkered table cloth exterior. If this album recalls anything, it's Philip Ridley's brilliantly creepy "The Reflecting Skin", a film with a similar sense of rural midwestern weirdness.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, August 16, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mouth By Mouth (Audio CD)

This album I believe has been beneficial to my life. Me like mucho! Your band still is welcomed to dinner at my place. Have much to share!
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