#The Orielles

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7/9/24.

I remember listening to The Go! Team (Brighton, England), "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" in 2004 and thinking the rules of music had changed. This was catchy yet so different. I think I heard about it through Pitchfork - I just remember reading "cheerleading" in their review.

Here we are, 20 years on, and this is what is promised to be the final reissue of "Thunder, Lightning, Strike". Monorail Music has an exclusive edition that comes with a 7" of both The Pastels and The Orielles covering "Hold Yr Terror Close". There is also a CDr of demos.

Listening to this again, I can't help but think of just how different this was (and is). And no wonder I then fell in love with "Proof of Youth". The Go! Team also made me go back and listen to Big Audio Dynamite, Win, and The Nectarine no. 9.

[manysmallhands]

FearOfMu21c #38

The Orielles - Come Down On Jupiter

Released - 21 Oct 2019

Did not chart

Spotify streams to date - 684,595

The Orielles are an act that I came to primarily as a singles band. I remember them early on when they were releasing goofy indie 45s and thinking “it’s gonna be so great when they release an album!”, and then they did and…. it just felt like a massive dilution of what they’d been doing up until then. It was basically more of the same but not as good, something which has held until their most recent LP Tableau, a genuinely strange record which stands up a lot better than its predecessors. Originally, they were a band of ideas who, at their best, never allowed that to distract from the giddy rush of pop music and, while what they’ve turned into now perhaps has more to recommend it overall, my memories of them will always come back to thrill of their early singles and to this one in particular.

Come Down On Jupiter Is the lead track from their similarly not bad but somewhat disappointing second album Disco Volador. It’s an ambitious song but one that wears its learning lightly, pulling all sorts of musical traditions together into what’s basically a fun indiepop banger. While Orielles’ contemporaries were cosplaying as Clash and Fall rip offs, Come Down On Jupiter is far more engaged with the likes of cool jazz and Factory funk. But their expansive palette is never a forced thing and so when they launch into the song’s none more indie chorus, they manage to channel the bounce and fun of those influences into something that captures all of their own youthful energy too. 

Whilst the song itself takes a fairly basic form, the journey it goes on is pretty wild. Opening with a washed out jazz shuffle, it moves through blasts of post punk energy in the second verse to finish in increasingly deranged territory, full of menacingly elastic bass riffs and ESG style whoops that reflect their particular brand of musical scavengery. Whilst everything seems to arrive out of nowhere, they still somehow feel like natural developments that weave comfortably into more than the sum of their parts. Had they managed to keep up this standard, they might well have taken this kind of playful ambition to a much wider audience. As it stands, Come Down On Jupiter is still a great record on its own terms.

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

15 Apr., ‘24

[originalhoneys]

Esme Hand-Halford

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: JOVM Mainstays The Orielles Share Glitchy "Tableau 002"

New Video: JOVM Mainstays The Orielles Share Glitchy "Tableau 002" @itshenrycarlyle @theorielles @MJHsupertrooper @adamhalfford62 @Mango_Mgmt @curlytt @heavenlyrecs

When all of Halifax, UK-based JOVM mainstays The Orielles‘ live dates to promote 2019’s Disco Volador were scrapped as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the trio — siblings Sidonie B. Hand-Halford (drums) and Esmé Dee Hand-Halford (vocals, bass) and their best friend Henry Carlyle (guitar, vocals) —spent 2020 working on  La Vita Olistica, a high-concept art film written and directed by the…

[piasgermany]

[EP + Video] The Orielles kündigen neue EP "The Goyt Method" an!

The Orielles haben ihre neue EP "The Goyt Method" angekündigt, die am 26. Mai digital via Heavenly erscheinen wird.

Die EP enthält fünf neue Songs, die aus zufällig ausgewählten Teilen ihres vierten Albums "Tableau" bestehen, das im Oktober letzten Jahres veröffentlicht wurde. „We wanted to zoom out of Tableau and disconnect all the pieces, rearranging them in new ways to create variations of songs, which encapsulate the whole record”, erzählt die britische Band über das besondere Konzept für die EP. “This way of creating music was familiar to us from spending a lot of time remixing and record collecting, gaining an invested interest in deep listening and avant-garde electronic music.” Das Neuarrangieren der Songs überließen die Drei dabei im Zeitalter der künstlichen Intelligenzen ganz dem Zufall, indem sie ein Online-Glücksrad benutzten, um die jeweiligen Spuren für die einzelnen Songs auszuwählen.

Wie das klingt, zeigt die Band auf dem geteilten neuen Track "Tableau 002", der im Video mit schrägen Sci-Fi- und Horror-Filmschnipseln verziert wird.

Tracklist "The Goyt Method" EP: 1. Tableau 001 2. Tableau 002 3. Improvisation 002 4. Tableau 003 5. Tableau 004

Diese Woche startet auch eine kleine Europa-Tour, die die Band auch für zwei Shows nach Deutschland bringt. 19.04.23 Köln - Bumann & Sohn 20.04.23 Berlin - Urban Spree Booking: Powerline Agency

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AB: After our first total flameout of the festival on its final night (artist we hoped to see was just starting to set up at her scheduled set time), I ran to the British Music Embassy and caught the last song of the set from The Orielles. It sounded interesting enough for me to have wanted a second, but maybe a bit much for a full 40 minutes.

[wroteonedad]

#MOOSIC 4

My little list of songs I've been listening to the most this month. (January 2023)

(from left to right)

Jamie xx & Gil Scott-Heron - NY Is Killing Me (2011)

Björk - Enjoy (1995)

Fabienne DelSol - Laisse tomber les filles (2004)

Lil Yachty - IVE OFFICIALLY LOST ViSiON (2023)

Peggy Gou - Perseguido Por El Rayo - Mixed (2019)

The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt (2017)

PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar (2022)

The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (1981)

Evalyn - A Pill to Crush (2018)

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Life´s too short for weird music - Tagesempfehlung 07.01.2023

Album of the week (KW 1/23): The Orielles / Tableau.

Wie bereits letztes Jahr angedeutet, möchte ich beginnend ab 2023 wieder dem Albumformat ein bisschen mehr Aufmerksamkeit zuwenden. Zum einen, weil das Streaming von Musik – wie auch zu Hochzeiten der Kassette – den einzelnen Song und das Hören von unterschiedlichsten Playlisten fördert. Zum anderen, weil es in den letzten 1-2 Jahren wieder deutlich mehr gute Veröffentlichungen im Albumformat zu beobachten gibt. Und bei nahezu allen guten Veröffentlichungen im Longplay (LP)-Format gilt: das Album bietet scon über seinen Kontext mehr als die Summe seiner Einzelteile (Songs). Immer Samstags werden Sie nun in 2023 im Rahmen einer Tagesempfehlung das Album of the week finden. Und wie bei den „regulären“ Tagestipps gilt auch hier: sollte keine interessante aktuelle Veröffentlichung anstehen, darf es gerne ein Album aus zurückliegenden Zeiten sein.

Den Anfang machen heute die The Orielles mit ihrem dritten Studio-Album Tableau. Bereits im Oktober 2022 veröffentlicht, bekam Tableau schon aufgrund der zahlreichen guten Album-Veröfentlichungen kurz vor Jahresende nicht die ihm gebührende Aufmerksamkeit. Abgesehen vom Zentralstück The Room(Tagestipp 30.09.2022) ist aber Tableau mit seinen 16 Stücken (z.T. Auch Soundskizzen) und einer Laufzeit von 62 Minuten ein Album, welches Sie sich hart erarbeiten müssen. Will sagen, Tableau ist das am wenigsten zugängliche Album im bisherigen Oeuvre der The Orielles. Das Album zeigt eine Band mit ungebremster Experimentierlust. Das Trio will seine musikalischen Grenzen nach vorne schieben. Und so wirkt vieles auf Tableau spontan und fast schon improvisiert. Bestes Beispiel ist der fast 9 minütige Freestyle auf dem treffend betittulierten The Improvisation 001. Überhaupt kommen die meisten Songs sehr sphärig und schwebend daher. Vieles ist nur angedeutet und kaum greift Mensch mal eine Tonfolge, einen Refrain, so verschwindet diese(r) wieder im musikalischen Nebel. Tableau ist ein großartiges Album einer Band, die Label-seitig (Heavenly Rec) komplette kreative Freiheiten eingeräumt bekommen hat - .und diese auch nutzt. Ich bin mal gespannt wohin diese musikalische Entwicklung der The Orielles noch führen wird. Mit Tableau hat das Trio jedenfalls einen kreativen Meilenstein abgeliefert. Abgesehen von The Room,entfalten die Stücke auf Tableau ihre beste Wirkung auch im Albumkontext, weshalb Sie Tableau unbedingt komplett ohne Unterbrechung hören sollten. Daher fällt es mir auch recht schwer, einen Song aus dem Albumkontext herauszubrechen und Ihnen als Tagestipp anzubieten. Am ehesten noch das fragile Honfleur remembered.

[linkvcr]

Heyy~ some of the sksw npc girlies for the requests mayhaps? 👀

i love skysword npcs they're always so fun to draw

[bandcampsnoop]

6/8/23.

Monorail Music (Glasgow, Scotland) alerted me to the 7" release by Water Machine (also based in Glasgow). Even though they had previously released a cassette on GoldMold Records (Glasgow...yet again), I somehow missed them.

Both "Water Machine Pt. II" (from the 7") and "I Quit" (from the cassette demo) start with languid synths or guitar before breaking out into great driving pop. It came as no surprise to read that they've shared the bill with bands like Holiday Ghosts, The Cool Greenhouse and The Orielles. GoldMold references both Pavement and Beat Happening.

Glasgow!

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I find it so crazy to think that the sole reason Hylia chose Zelda as her mortal reincarnation was not because Zelda had magic, or was part of some powerful bloodline, but because how she foresaw the lengths of how much Link loved her

Meaning if Link happened love some other girl like Karane, Orielle, Kina, or Peatrice just as much, Hylia would've probably chosen them instead of Zelda. One of them could've been the Goddess reborn as a mortal, and the starter of the Royal Family Bloodline that lasts over many centuries.

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“ are you not diverted? “

Ship: Fuegoleon Vermillion x The Salamander || Bridget Oriel

done for @blackclover-emc’s halloween event!

[kaizuart]

Angeltober 16: Martyr Oriel, an angel who discovered the horrors in what he was doing for Heaven and faked his own death to escape them.

[nova1516]

Does it matter who wins the argument?

silly next gen au animatic featuring the silvermantis and fuegoriel kiddos

@t-f-t @funky-sea-cryptid tia…is totally not guilty

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