Other Lives – Rituals

Double vinyl LP pressing. Other Lives, which includes Josh Onstott and Jonathon Mooney, remain focused on the search for audible clarity: their next expression, their next melody, their next rhythm. Rituals, the band's third and 2015 full-length album, is a pure encapsulation of the trio's relentless drive for precision. Ambient soundscapes (New Fog") buttress against prog-rock stomp ("2 Pyramids") lending the album the experience of embarking on a choose-your-own-adventure novel. "There's kind of a duality to this record," Tabish says, referencing "Pattern" - "rhythmically kind of up-tempo, really fast-moving, marimbas, this new kind of new-wave orchestra sound" - in opposition to the closing title track, a slow-building, piano-and-strings-anchored ballad Tabish wrote in the finals weeks of recording."

Disc 1

1. Fair Weather
2. Pattern
3. Reconfiguration
4. Easy Way Out
5. Beat Primal
6. New Fog
7. 2 Pyramids

Disc 2

1. Need a Line
2. English Summer
3. Untitled
4. No Trouble
5. For the Last
6. It's Not Magic
7. Ritual

Label: TBD Records

Catalog: 822268

Genre: Rock