Other Lives

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Does anyone else on here like 'Other Lives'?

I first heard them by pure fluke doing a brilliant live session on Radio 4 and downloaded both albums ("Other Lives" and "Tamer Animals") as soon as I got back home. Now can't stop playing them and can't get some of the tunes out of my head. Many real growers, the sort that take tame to creep up on you and end up being the 'keepers'.

Stand outs for me are 'It Was The Night', 'For 12', 'Dark Horse' and, especially, 'Landforms' which has a beautiful, moving, instrumental/vocal passage around 2 minutes in. Hypnotic stuff. Frustratingly though, the words are hard to make out and I just can't find them on any of the usual lyrics web sites, so one reason for posting as I wonder if anyone has them. I see someone on You Tube has said the same so maybe it will be hard to get.

Seems they are getting good reviews and are brilliant live - I regret missing them when they came to Nottingham last year - and there are some really good live sessions and clips of concerts on You Tube.

For anybody who likes 'Fleet Foxes', 'Wilco', 'Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young' or probably 'Radiohead' I reckon you'd find something to like...

Good review here for anyone who wants to get a flavour of what they are like:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/vq9p

http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/review/5892/Other_Li...

[realjv]

'For 12' is wonderfull. Not got the album yet, but its on the perminantly long list of albums to be brought.

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realjv said:

'For 12' is wonderfull. Not got the album yet, but its on the perminantly long list of albums to be brought.

You won't be disappointed! Both albums are great.

[realjv]

And when they wrote 'For 12' they'd clearly been listening to Radioheads 'How to disappear completely' No bad thing considering that its one of the most devastating heartbreaking songs ever.

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Didn't they support Radiohead on a tour, or is that this year? Will have to look it up...