More often than not in the music industry, the loss of a band member can literally be dismembering to a band's lifespan. Once in awhile though, the adverse effect takes place, and sometimes a band can rediscover itself and chart its way into new and exciting musical territory (Joy Division's transformation into New Order is a prime example).
For Oklahoma folk artists
Kunek, the loss a member correlated with a brand new path of musical introspection. Equipped with a new sound and a new identity, the remaining members re-baptized themselves into their current incarnation,
Other Lives.
The impending release of their
self-titled debut is a five song exercise in evocative melancholy. Soncially, The EP paints a lush wall of strings and percussion that borrows heavily from the Phil Spectre school of production. Front man
Jesse Tabish coos his way through the rich orchestration with a haunting lament that feels its way through tangled songs about love and loss. Paper Cities carves its way into the Damien Rice section of your hippocampus, and sounds like the soundtrack to accompany your stare through a rain soaked window (it should be mentioned these guys already got a track onto
Grey's Anatomy).
Keep an eye out for their self-titled EP to be released October 21st on
tbd records.
tour dates:
Oct 15 - Eskimo Joe's - Stillwater, Oklahoma
Oct 17 - VZD'S - OKC, Oklahoma
Oct 18 - Mojo's - Columbia, Missouri
Oct 21 - Schuba's - w/The Little Ones - Chicago, Illinois
Oct 22 - CMJ - The Canal Room (ASCAP Showcase) - New York, New York
Oct 24 - CMJ - Mercury Lounge - New York, New York
Oct 31 2008 - 51st Street Speakeasy w/The Uglysuit - Oklahoma City
Nov 7 - Spaceland - Los Angeles, California
Nov 10 - Chop Suey w/ The Little Ones - Seattle, Washington
Nov 11 - Doug Fir Lounge w/The Little Ones - Portland, Oregon
Nov 14 - The Echo w/The little Ones - Los Angeles, California
Nov 15 - Detroit Bar w/The Little Ones Costa Mesa, California
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myspace: other lives @ myspace
mp3: other lives:: paper cities - debut ep
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