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Release Date Friday 10th October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Volume V follows on five years after their fourth album For Your
Love, a record lovingly nurtured but then swallowed up by the
Covid pandemic.
The title signifies the latest chapter in the ongoing story of Other
Lives, their fifth record of magnificent musical and emotional
depth. From the first notes of the opening track and lead single
‘Mystic,’ it’s clear that the cinematic breadth of their arrangements
and melodies had risen several dynamic notches, with a fuller
orchestrated reach and more towering drama across the album’s
eight songs and two instrumentals - evidence of the band’s hunger
to keep progressing while retaining the essence of what makes
Other Lives so unique and irresistible.
The majority of Volume V was recorded in The Sheerar, a former
church that is now the Stillwater History Museum. The Sheerar’s
acoustics partly accounts for the album’s more cathedral-esque
take on Other Lives’ signature sound, which has the roots in a
form of Americana but expanded via classical and post-classical
forms, and the influence of iconic composers such as Ennio
Morricone and Henry Mancini.
Given the five-year gaps between the last three Other Lives
albums, the band plan to follow up Volume V more swiftly with a
sixth and seventh chapter; a promise of more magic and
magnificence to come. “I see Volume V as the beginning of Other
Lives’ second act,” Jesse concludes. “We’re all getting older, and
we have some regrets about not putting out more music – so this
might be our Neil Young phase! Releasing more music over a
shorter space of time.”
Mystic
Versailles
What’s It Gonna Take
Heading West
One For The Kids
Show Us Some Love
Outro
Cisa Cisa
Read My Mind
The Wake
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