AOTY 2023

For Their Love

Other Lives - For Their Love
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2020 Ratings: #141 / 868
User Score
Based on 120 ratings
2020 Ratings: #399
Liked by 8 people
April 24, 2020 / Release Date
LP / Format
ATO / Label
Chamber Pop / Genre
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JVILCHIS
93

Really glad I found this. I knew it was going to be great after the first seconds of the album. The ambient and emotions meld in an ensane way with the lyrics. Almost every elemnet of the song works perfectly with each other, the violins in the background, the guitars, the vocals, the bass, the drums... I can't really explain it to you, you have to listen to it.

Defenetely really refresing and the best album I've heard of 2020 so far. ... read more

zaxapitsa
50

Yanquis con franela aportando más barbas y más alfombras en una producción sin la más mínima contención, como viene siendo habitual. Y la cosa prometía porque Sound of Violence es francamente bonita.

leonardo
84

i bumped into this album by accident and it wasn’t my worst decision at all. this record is completely up to the mark, being a very cinematographic one taking into consideration that the production is able to set you off to a daydream or a movie. on the other hand, the songwriting is sort of puzzling, but the good thing is that the songs can be interpreted within countless scenarios. either way, the violins definitely stood out to give an ethereal touch with bits of detailed conflicts to ... read more

holsgr
20

forgettable (★☆☆☆☆)

zaxapitsa
50

Yanquis con franela aportando más barbas y más alfombras en una producción sin la más mínima contención, como viene siendo habitual. Y la cosa prometía porque Sound of Violence es francamente bonita.

79

It’s been several years since we’ve heard from Other Lives, a perpetually underrated Oklahoma-based band whose chamber indie folk fit right in with the trends of the early 2010s. The indiesphere has since largely pivoted away from these sounds, but “For Their Love” essentially picks up where Other Lives left off, and succeeds anyway. It’s an instrumentally diverse album filled with highly intricate, detailed compositions — too intimate to be maximalist, but ... read more

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Added on: January 10, 2020