Other Lives - For Their Love (ATO Records)
Add Date: 04/28/2020
Focus Tracks: “Hey Hey I”, “Lost Day”, “Sound of Violence”
Explicit Tracks: ”Cops”
Formats: NACC Top 200, NACC Non-Comm, & SubModern
Artist Info: Other Lives mark their return with the release of their long-awaited fourth album, For Their Love, on 24th April 2020. Back on the horizon with their first new material since 2015, the group wrote and recorded at their iconic Cooper Mountain Sound studio based near Portland, Oregon. Cooper Mountain Sound not only provides the backdrop and inspiration for the entire album but is also the location of the video for the first single, "Lost Day", and features on the album’s artwork.
For Their Love follows 2015’s Rituals and, while undoubtedly an Other Lives album, it finds frontman Jesse Tabish displaying a more candid narrative both in general and on a more personal level. For Their Love is a cohesive, concise body of work that exhibits the full range from this wonderful songwriter.
He goes some way to explaining thus, “the album is a record reflecting human feeling in the current state of affairs. Economy and politics on the individual—whilst the latter still has to deal with the basic struggles of finding meaning of their existence. Money, love, and death are always real and hard to cope with; what does the individual choose to make these larger themes of life easier to deal with. The record speaks in realness, questions, observing, lamenting and hopefully finding the slightest of hope in themselves; these characters sometimes venturing out into spiritual, religious or institutionalized endeavors. In my personal hope, only finding their self-worth is more important than anything that has been taught or preached to them”
Originally hailing from Stillwater, Oklahoma, Other Lives emerged in 2011 with their debut, Tamer Animals, much celebrated both across Europe and the US with the band garnering high praise for their live shows, resulting in an invite from Radiohead for them to act as main support on the North American leg of their world tour. Having made the move to Portland and enlisting Atoms for Peace drummer Joey Waronker to co-produce, the resultant Rituals was unveiled after which the band retreated somewhat…until now.