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The Orielles are an English
indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...
band from Halifax,
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, England. The band features Sidonie "Sid" B. Hand-Halford on drums, Esmé Dee Hand-Halford on bass and vocals and Henry Carlyle Wade on guitar and vocals.


Career

Their debut album, ''Silver Dollar Moment'', was released in February 2018 on
Heavenly Records Heavenly Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Jeff Barrett in 1990. Heavenly released the first albums from Saint Etienne, Beth Orton and Doves, and early singles by Manic Street Preachers. Current Heavenly artists ...
.
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described the album as a "stunning debut... it does have a uniquely sweet spirit and lighthearted beauty all its own by a young U.K. trio that gives the baggy indie dance sound of the early '90s a serious upgrade." Their second album, ''Disco Volador'', was released in February 2020 on
Heavenly Records Heavenly Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Jeff Barrett in 1990. Heavenly released the first albums from Saint Etienne, Beth Orton and Doves, and early singles by Manic Street Preachers. Current Heavenly artists ...
. It was produced by Marta Sologni. ''
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'' gave it a three out of five stars rating, describing the album as the band "expanding the sound of their winsome but somewhat conventional debut by abandoning traditional song structures and voyaging into new textures." It has a Metacritic rating of 73, with ''Uncut'' commenting that the album mixes "the euphoria of whooshing through infinite space past astral displays of imagined beauty via a blend of disco funk, dream pop, electronic exotica and '70s highlife" and ''Q'' expressing that the album is "both instantly appealing and dazzling inventive." On October 7, 2022, the band released their third album, ''Tableau'', on
Heavenly Records Heavenly Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Jeff Barrett in 1990. Heavenly released the first albums from Saint Etienne, Beth Orton and Doves, and early singles by Manic Street Preachers. Current Heavenly artists ...
. The band describe the album as "an experimental
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", and it was self-produced in collaboration with Joel Anthony Patchett.


Discography


Albums

* '' Silver Dollar Moment'' (2018) * ''Disco Volador'' (2020) * ''La Vita Olistica'' (2021) * ''Tableau'' (2022)


Singles

* "Yawn" (2014) * "Space Doubt" (2015) * "Joey Says We Got It" (2015) * "Jobin" (2016) * "Sugar Tastes Like Salt" (2017) * "I Only Bought It For the Bottle (2017) * "Let Your Dogtooth Grow" (2017) * "Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)" (2018) * "Bobbi's Second World" (2018) * "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)" (2019) * "Come Down On Jupiter" (2019) * "Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)" (2020) * "Beam/s" (2022) * "The Room" (2022) * "Tableau Remixes" EP (2022)


References

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