Seraphina Lotkhamnga on October 2nd, 2012

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Oklahoma orchestral rockers Other Lives revealed an Atoms For Peace remix of 2011’s title track “Tamer Animals” back in July, but we finally get another robust original from their forthcoming EP “Mind the Gap” (out Oct. 23 on TBD Records). And suffice to say “Take Us Alive” is epically ambrosial as expected: Violins loop before they give way to the deep rhythms; keys lay a foundation under the heartrending harmonies; and dynamics tug on the heart strings as much as they tantalize the audio senses. The song written by frontman Jesse Tabish in his parents’ backyard joins the “Tamer Animals” remix and a few other “electro-feeling” songs on the EP, which was written mostly on a laptop in a van while Other Lives was on tour. But even with the loops, the quintet’s sound remains expansive and intoxicating.

||| Download: “Take Us Alive”

||| Live: Other Lives play Nov. 13 at El Rey Theatre.

Photo by Jeremy Charles