UK trio The Orielles have announced their fourth album, Only You Left, which will be out March 13 via Heavenly. It was made in Hamburg and the Greek island of Hydra with producer and longtime collaborator Joel Anthony Patchett.
After the experimental/improvisational 2022 album Tableau, Esmé Dee Hand-Halford, Sidonie Dee Hand-Halford and Henry Carlyle Wade have transformed themselves again. “You’ve got to die and be reborn between albums,” says Henry. “It comes naturally,” adds Esmé, “it’s not something we consciously do.”
“As soon as we booked the studios, certain songs just took these paths,” explains Henry. “We were picturing recording it in this cold, clinical space in Hamburg or this laid back, bohemian, church-esque space in Greece. And then that just completely influenced how we played and how they were written.”
The first single from Only You Left is its opening song, “Three Halves,” which sets an ethereal melody and vocal to some grungy instrumentation. The band say: “Citing ideas that we took interest in during the early stages of writing the new record, ‘Three Halves’ flips between its absurd contrasts as the name suggests. Built upon a soundscape of droning organs, guitar, and cello it floats between noise and emptiness, precision, and catharsis, welcoming each half leads into the next.”
Listen to “Three Halves” below.
Only You Left
Three Halves
Shadow of You Appears
Tears Are
Embers
Tiny Beads Reflecting Light
The Woodland Has Returned
All in Metal
You are Eating a Part of Yourself
Whenever (I May Not Feel So Close)
Wasp
To Undo the World Itself