Oklahoma indie rockers Other Lives traffic in an amalgam of heady Baroque pop, brooding, windswept, electro-alt-rock, and Ennio Morricone-tinged Americana that's both sumptuous and rooted in darkness. Emerging in 2009, the band began to make waves in 2012 with the release of their well-relieved sophomore effort, Tamer Animals, and an opening slot on Radiohead's North American tour. They continued to expand their widescreen cinematic indie rock on subsequent efforts like Rituals (2015) and For Their Love (2020).
The group formed as an instrumental project in 2004 under the na...