UK trio The Orielles have announced their fourth album, “Only You Left”, which will be out March 13th via Heavenly Records. 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.”
Henry Carlyle Wade – Guitar, Synth, Organ Esmé Dee Hand-Halford– Bass, Vocals Sidonie B Hand-Halford – Drums, Percussion Lili Holland-Fricke – Cello Taken from their 4th record, ‘Only You Left’ out 13th March 2026 via Heavenly Recordings
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