Other Lives (US)

Though they hail from the cowboy town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Other Lives have little to do with country & western music. The critics see them more as America’s answer to Radiohead or the most serious competitor to The National. Singer, composer, multiinstrumentalist, and band frontman Jesse Tabish pays no heed to the pigeonholing, proving on last year’s Tamer Animals that Other Lives are perfectly comfortable combining chamber folk with NYC minimalism and a nod to European indie rock.