The Orielles give us another taster of their long-awaited 3rd album, Tableau, in the form of The Room – whatever can we expect?

Talk about a band that is always prepared to take their art in new, unfamiliar and captivating directions. Silver Dollar Moment and Disco Volador are absolute gems of albums and both couldn’t sound more different; you would have thought they were released two decades apart as opposed to two years.

The Room has managed to keep all the magic of previous Orielles sounds and has changed everything around it, piece by piece. Noticeably faster-paced than anything on Disco Volador, the 70s chic sound has been substituted for a 2000s party-esque vibe, whose chorus wouldn’t have found itself out of place on the soundtrack for Human Traffic. 

What gives The Room such a fresh interesting sound? Perhaps it all comes down to the way it was forged and crafted deep in the bowels of Eve Studios. Born in a jamming session that was one of their first post-lockdown, Sidonie, drummer of the band, commented that: “The lyrics were written line-by-line by each of us, randomly, so we muddled them up and picked them at random. The first lyric was ‘the moon is in the room’, and I believe she [Esmé] got that from a Clarice Lispector novel. The whispering was definitely inspired by bands like Portishead or Art of Noise.”

And yes, like we’ve come to expect with any Orielles single release, there’s an absolutely wonderful companying video that is certainly worth your time — they most certainly know how to make a piece of visual art that can make us beam with joy.

In addition to the release of Tableau, The Orielles will also be performing a full UK tour coming next spring. Surely a must-see of 2023?

Tableau is out on October 7th via Heavenly Recordings. Preorder here.

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