Announced: His Name is Alive – Livonia, Home Is In Your Head + Mouth By Mouth

His Name is Alive, the long-standing ethereal darkwave project of Michigan musician Warren Defever, announces the repressing of the band’s first three records on 4AD – Livonia, Home Is In Your Head, and Mouth By Mouth – available from May 8.

Recently reissued in 2024 as part of a quickly sold-out colored vinyl boxset entitled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, with audio sourced from the original analogue tapes and remastered by Defever himself, each album will now be available on Standard Black LP and CD (with the CD editions of each record featuring exclusive bonus material sourced from the 2024 boxset).

New His Name is Alive merchandise will also be available exclusively via the 4AD store, to coincide with these repressings. This includes: a cap bundled with Home is in your Head; a water bottle bundled with Livonia; and a T-shirt bundled with Mouth by Mouth. The items are also available individually.

His Name is Alive has a long history with 4AD, signed to the label in 1989, after label founder Ivo Watts-Russell fell in love with their dark and fragmented sonic inclinations via cassette demos sent in the post. While His Name is Alive’s sound was in line with the gothic echoes of labelmates Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance, they also had a different, nonpareil quality, something existing on the boundary of this earth and another realm further underground.

Pre-order / pre-save His Name is Alive’s 2026 reissues here.