Other Lives are back on tour visiting Bowery Ballroom last week. More accurately, they transported the ballroom into somewhere mystical and surreal, like how it might feel to exist inside an 18th century painting or some obscure French philosophical movie.
The stage was peppered with giant glowing light bulbs that accented an assemblage of instruments: keyboards, various drums, horns, cello and all the usual suspects from bass to guitar. The band entered stage humbly and quietly, obviously not there to banter. But when they began, they became so deeply involved with the music that it was memorizing; demanding that we leave our minds and journey with them.
A logical style for a band that spent the beginning of the year touring with Radiohead, probably the most famous for delivering a deeply connected musical performance. Thom Yorke has also endorsed them personally, 
creating a remixed version of the title track of their latest album, Tamer Animals. And similar to Yorke (if you have every seen him on stage), Other Lives played with whole hearted vigor, telling their musical story from somewhere profoundly inside themselves.
As the evening progressed they continued to produce a massive and dramatic sound, recanting songs mostly from the new album. All five members transitioned between different instruments smoothly, while the audience quietly absorbed it, stunned and elated. In the encore they played a soulful arrangement of Nirvana’s Something in the Way. And after an unmeasurable amount of time, they returned us to our reality, only with a sense that something progressive had moved from within. Other Lives. Yes, exactly.