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Other Lives - For Their Love

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  • 2020
  • Other Lives - For Their Love Image 1
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It’s no band I discover: I already liked their 2nd album, Tamer animals (2011), carried by the excellent "For 12".
For Their Love which has just been released is their 4th album. I sat out the 3rd, which wasn’t less good maybe, but I probably I had my ears busy with other things at that time.
The fact remains that I’m joyfully getting back into their orchestral and orchestrated folk: in the booklet I counted no fewer than 20 credited instruments!

As a result, you see so many images while listening that it could make a pretty good movie soundtrack.
For example, I imagine "Sound of Violence" would fit very well for figure skating.

Longing for beating the syncopated rhythm on the sides of your thighs, in place of the colts ("We Wait")?
For these are tunes of cowboys, long-haired singer Jesse Tabish states. Or these contemporary cowboys named "cops".

This music breathes anyway. You fancy a good hi-fi system, that this good sound fills the entire living-room. You even can open the windows so that it spreads beyond, that it marries the sun and the outside heat. Well, try it with "We Wait" again, you’ll surely want to sing the theme, easy, lalala and it’s OK.
As for the rest, there’s some Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant ("Who's Gonna Love Us") and you’ll note, for all that, a foray into rock with "Hey Hey I", of which I ignore if there’ll be a "Hey Hey II" or if the "I" just means "me"(?)

Through its singular folk, through its words which seem away from the world we live in, but dedicated to a murdered friend, this band from Oklahoma really takes you into "other lives". I can’t say I discover... But you?



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  • “Make some room for the afterlife”. The album starts this way. Direct, with no intro ("Sound of Violence")

    Like in every folk album, the songs are not long, all around 3 minutes. With one exception – "All Eyes/For Their Love" – which makes 6. But this one can indeed be seen as 2 merged pieces, "All Eyes" (instrumental) and "For Their Love" (giving its name to the album). Is it a coincidence if it’s, according to me, the less achieved track of the record?

  • Lost Day
    Nites Out
    We Wait
  • All Eyes/For Their Love
  • The sentence

    “How many times will you let them suck you dry?” ("Hey Hey I")

  • them
    otherlives.com (27 Hits)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Lives_(band) (26 Hits)
  • ...And now, listen!
    • otherlivesofficial.bandcamp.com/album/for-their-love (25 Hits)
    • www.deezer.com/en/album/124277822 (25 Hits)
    • open.spotify.com/album/1pesl95uJqfN7kIOFozSHt (27 Hits)
    • www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSoqn_QWwa030B9DY4h2N2RBa56WCCi-0 (11 Hits)
  • Tags
    folk | Tamer animals | Led Zeppelin | Jesse Tabish | Other Lives

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        2018

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      William Z Villain

        2017

    Weird and intriguing
      Tom McRae
    Did I Sleep and Miss the Border
        2015

    Do not sleep, do not miss him


  • Created
    20 June 2020

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