Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:00:00 EST 
      From: Cameron Webb (cameronw@CIDM.WH.SU.EDU.AU) 
      Subject: HNIA:dirteaters from way way back


While wading through some old articles and stuff I'd cut out of
various newspapers and magazines in my more enthusiastic youth
I stumbled across this review which you may find interesting.

DRUM MEDIA (Sydney, Australia)
26 May 1992
by Mark Demetrius

HIS NAME IS ALIVE
The Dirt Eaters
4AD

Despite the skeletal artwork and earthy title, this four-tracker is a
very subdued-even ethereal-affair. It's chock-full of ideas for all
that, though. "Are We Still Married?" has the feathery mournful
languor of the Cowboy Junkies, but with a sinister power far grander
than their insipid efforts. In fact, singers Denice James and Karen
Neil come closer to the icy majesty of the late great Nico at her
best, and are accompanied by some unobtrusively effective electronic
effects. Those wierd sounds are more upfront and abrasive in "Is This
The Way Tigers Do?", with its psychotic theme about the supposed
joys of holding someone underwater. The title song balances the
pace and mood of a Gregorian chant with a vocal delivery as clean
and wholesome as a pillow fight. Like musical David Lynches, His
Name Is Alive combine the angelic and the grotesquely disquieting
in roughly equal measure. Try to pin them down; you'll have fun failing.