Good to have this turn up just a week after I was mentioning it; and also just after Roger Eno and Kate St John, since it shares with their album the space between form and texture, a mixture of short song-fragments and intstrumentals. And also the same early-nineties period.
This was the first album by His Name is Alive that I bought (second hand from Jacks in Sheffield for £8), and I've no idea why I did. I don't think I'd ever heard them on the radio or read a review back then — and a decade and a half later, I still haven't. I just took a punt (because it was on 4AD?)
This time it paid off, and I listened to Home is in Your Head a lot; buying more HNIA albums in the hope that they might match its quality. The 23 tracks are mostly so short — all but five of them under three minutes — that the overall effect is like one long Suppers-Ready-style track made up of different movements and recurring motifs, like the "are we still married?" lyric.
Not quite as good as I remembered it, as the 4AD sound has dated a bit, but still quite diverting.
MusicBrainz entry for this album
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