Other Lives have released their sublime new album For Their Love today – check it out on New Music Friday below:
It’s the band’s first record since 2015’s Rituals and has been described by Jesse Tabish as one, ‘reflecting human feeling in the current state of affairs’.
“The reward for their labours is a record with poise and beauty, its themes – the evaporation of the American dream; the conflicts between the individual, society and the state; hope as a fundamental way of life – are weighty topics, easy to deliver as sermons,” we said in our 8/10 review.
“They also come with strings attached: each as a relatable narrative is one thing, but lifting their weight and making them engaging is quite another. In approach there is more than a breath of The National here, but songs like Hey Hey I – about, ‘the paradigm of the working class’ – is, modestly yes, full of the nation’s soul, Tabish’s wife Kim adding harmonies, the poverty of the subject matter forgotten.”