OTHER LIVES 8211 Volume V 8211 LP 8211 Vinyl

LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Volume V follows on five years after their fourth album For Your Love, a record lovingly nurtured but then swallowed up by the Covid pandemic. The title signifies the latest chapter in the ongoing story of Other Lives, their fifth record of magnificent musical and emotional depth. From the first notes of the opening track and lead single Mystic, its clear that the cinematic breadth of their arrangements and melodies had risen several dynamic notches, with a fuller orchestrated reach and more towering drama across the albums eight songs and two instrumentals – evidence of the bands hunger to keep progressing while retaining the essence of what makes Other Lives so unique and irresistible. The majority of Volume V was recorded in The Sheerar, a former church that is now the Stillwater History Museum. The Sheerars acoustics partly accounts for the albums more cathedral-esque take on Other Lives signature sound, which has the roots in aform of Americana but expanded via classical and post-classical forms, and the influence of iconic composers such as Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini. Given the five-year gaps between the last three Other Lives albums, the band plan to follow up Volume V more swiftly with a sixth and seventh chapter; a promise of more magic and magnificence to come. I see Volume V as the beginning of Other Lives second act, Jesse concludes. Were all getting older, and we have some regrets about not putting out more music so this might be our Neil Young phase! Releasing more music over a shorter space of time. Radiohead affiliates offer beauty. Lush, lofty, cinematic creations The Guardian The next must-have pastoral American sensation MOJO Magazine meticulously written and arranged and, at times, vividly cinematic – Pitchfork Tracklist: 1. Mystic2. Versailles3. Whats It Gonna Take4. Heading West5. One For The Kids6. Show Us Some Love7. Outro8. Cisa Cisa9. Read My Mind10. The Wake