Tamer Animals - Other Lives
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  • Summary: Such orchestral instruments as the bassoon, cello, clarinet, trumpet, and violin are featured on the second album from Oklahoma indie rock band Other Lives, previously known as Kunek.

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
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  1. BBC Music
    Feb 1, 2012
    90
    It's the most uniquely sublime, meticulous and heroic 40 minutes of 2011.
  2. Mojo
    Feb 10, 2012
    80
    The next must-have pastoral American sensation, from Oklahoma.[Sep 2011, p.97]
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  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 15, 2012
    80
    It's transporting enough to leave haunting echoes all its own. [Sep 2011, p.114]
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  4. PopMatters
    Feb 1, 2012
    50
    It's not that there is anything abrasive or unpleasant or wrong with these songs, it's just that they all feel cut from the same pattern.

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  1. Greatbeallo
    10
    I decided to give this album a listen, simply because I knew the band had toured with Radiohead. I really liked the album initially, but as I listened again and again I began to lose myself in the ethereal soundscapes that Other Lives have created on this album. It is a simultaneously joyful and somber listening experience, and I love every minute of it. Comes highly recommended to those who like Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, or Fleet Foxes. It is a multi-layered, subtly hypnotizing masterpiece.… Expand

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