“Over the last decade, Warn Defever has recruited an ever-changing assembly line of musicians to flesh out his mad, perverse fantasies under the His Name Is Alive moniker. All of his albums before 1996's *Stars on ESP* are out-of-print in the U.S., so it's hard to trace Defever (once Warren) back to his lo-fi goth-folk-ethnic-guitar-pop roots without paying over $20 for an import. What is available”
