Video: Other Lives, ‘Lost Day’

Kevin Bronson on January 9th, 2020

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Jesse Tabish, frontman of Oklahoma-bred orchestral rockers Other Lives, is a notoriously slow worker. There have been three Other Lives albums since 2009, a self-titled debut, “Tamer Animals” (2011) and “Rituals” (2015), all of which are varying degrees of what scribes like us like to call “transcendent.”

We’ll bust out the word again to describe Other Lives’ new song “Lost Day.” Its release today marks the end of a 4 1/2-year silence from the band (excepting the score Tabish wrote for Arthur Miller’s “The Price”), whose principals scattered after releasing “Rituals,” Tabish and Jonathon Mooney to Oregon and Josh Onstott to Los Angeles.

“Lost Day” is the first single from Other Lives’ fourth album “For Their Love,” due April 24. With its aching strings, choral vocals and Tabish’s calmly sonorous vocals, the song builds on the clean but lush sound they achieved on “Rituals.” It’s haunting and more than a little bit melancholy — after all, “It’s the last amen for the new-born seeker,” as Tabish sings.

“The album is a record reflecting human feeling in the current state of affairs — economy and politics — on the individual, while the latter still has to deal with the basic struggles of finding meaning of their existence,” Tabish says in the album announcement. “Money, love and death are always real and hard to cope with: What does the individual choose to make these larger themes of life easier to deal with? The record speaks in realness, questions, observing, lamenting and hopefully finding the slightest of hope in themselves, these characters sometimes venturing out into spiritual, religious or institutionalized endeavors.

“In my personal hope, only finding their self-worth is more important than anything that has been taught or preached to them.”

The video, directed by James Taylor Gray, was filmed in an A-frame home in Oregon’s Cooper Mountain region.

||| Watch: The video for “Lost Day”