Warn Defever, I Want You to Live 100 Years (CD)

His Name is Alive can be hard to track through Warn's stylistic twists and turns, and 1998's I Want You to Live 100 Years is certainly an odd and surprising curve. Warn sings primitive songs of guitar, piano, and vocals with a vaguely country/old-fashioned blue-collar bent, combined with a bit of his indie-rock personality that comes through. It's mostly very narrowly filtered to sound like a telephone or old wire recorder, but once in awhile some hints of modern fidelity do come through. His vocals sound stylized to a point where his voice is hard to recognize, and there are a couple of (what seem to be) found recordings thrown in. The blurry cover photo reflects the old-fashioned side, while the fonts and design tie more to the indie rock side of the album.