Tamer Animals

Other Lives | Format: MP3 Music

Product Details

• Original Release Date: May 10, 2011
• Label: TBD Records
• Copyright: 2011 TBD Records, LLC
• Total Length: 40:14
• Genres:
  • Alternative Rock
• ASIN: B004WHQYPW
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,819 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Speechless (But Not Unable to Type) May 17, 2011

By D. C. Casey

Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase

Having savored their first, self-titled album for some time now, I knew Other Lives was a band to pay attention to. The first LP plumbed the depths of mellow, orchestrated melancholy in a perfect rainy-day-on-the-desolate-plains kind of way. But little did I know where they'd go next...

This album is sonically enormous. It's like they've managed to catch the lonely grandeur of the American West in a 40 minute snap shot. With tones of Ennio Morricone-style drama, Other Lives fully fleshes out their sound with strings, horns, ghostly harmonies, and the dead-pan vocals of Jesse Tabish still haunting the soundscape, although pushed a bit further back into the mix this time around. Still devastating in its beauty and sadness, Tamer Animals manages to cut down on the dreariness with gorgeous production and absolutely stunning orchestration, making this album a journey into desolation that even those of us who *aren't* chronically depressed can enjoy.

Although it hasn't gotten much attention as of yet, I feel like this collection will be discovered eventually, but keeping a low profile certainly hasn't hurt the song writing of Other Lives. If staying under the radar helps them to continue making this level of music, then, dear reader, pretend this is a bad review! [But buy the album anyway. Juuuuust don't tell anybody.]

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Throwback' in the best sense of the word June 21, 2011

By Steven Shumak

Format:Audio CD

This is an outstanding album without a weak track. I consider myself lucky to have found it - and now you should, too.

Haunting at times, but always beautiful, the sound manages to be intimate and huge at the same time. There are lots of influences at play here and if you're an old guy like me you'll hear Barclay James Harvest, Renaissance, and Strawbs. In other words, the album harks back to so-called progressive rock from England of the early 1970's. I have no doubt that if I was listening to my favourite FM "album station" in 1972, this album would fit right in. Actually, it wouldn't fit in at all - on the contrary, it would stand out and be the highest on their playlist, by demand!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A cocoon of sound.... May 11, 2011

By Evan Fleishacker

Format:Audio CD

Other Lives have created a sound scape that is pure bliss. Tamer Animals is a wondrous record that is perfect for headphone escape, yet sounds amazing no matter where you're listening to it. Each song shows careful craftsmanship, and that is truly something to appreciate in this era. This album is just the tipping point for them....