Always Stay Sweet

by His Name Is Alive

Always Stay Sweet cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 23 February 1999
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:52
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Warren Defever, Lovetta Pippen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Always Stay Sweet' is a best-of of His Name Is Alive, Warren Defever's Michigan project, whose 4AD records moved from ethereal collage to fractured Americana. The Livonia band was 4AD's American anchor in the 1990s.

Genres

Descriptors: jangly, melodic, lo-fi, guitars, personal

Tracklist

  1. Are You Comin' Down This Weekend? (0:18)
  2. Her Eyes Were Huge Things (1:37)
  3. E Nicolle (3:57)
  4. If July (3:53)
  5. How Ghosts Affect Relationships (3:54)
  6. Chances Are We Are Mad (2:37)
  7. As We Could Ever (2:45)
  8. Are We Still Married? (2:51)
  9. Why People Disappear (4:17)
  10. My Feathers Needed Cleaning (2:27)
  11. Cornfield (3:17)
  12. Home Is in Your Head (2:23)
  13. Underwater (3:29)
  14. We Hold the Land in Great Esteem (4:00)
  15. Last One / Last One (2:59)
  16. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Out (3:25)
  17. The Sand That Holds The Lakes In Place / Lake (3:36)
  18. In Every Ford (3:45)
  19. Baby Fish Mouth (2:34)
  20. The Dirt Eaters (4:49)
  21. Man on the Silver Mountain (3:48)

Credits

More from His Name Is Alive: full discography