With ‘Rituals‘ due out next week, Other Lives are streaming their new album in full at this link.
More than 60 songs were recorded for the album in Portland, Oregon as Other Lives spent time and care crafting a follow-up to 2011’s sublime ‘Tamer Animals‘.
“There was a spirit of change,” Jesse Tabish has said. “We had done ‘Tamer Animals’, which was very close to us and about our home. So the next record was about the spontaneity of travel and being isolated. For the first times in our lives we were moving off on our own away from our families and kind of coming into our own. I wanted the songs to reflect that new spirit.”
“This one was a real journey. It was a long time spent searching for a new identity, still trying to retain the past of our musical palate but also really trying to stretch ourselves into a new type of music.”