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September 28th, 2022 3:02am

A Whisper In A Seashell


The Orielles “The Room”

I’ve been covering The Orielles here and there on this site since their earliest releases and while there was definitely growth apparent along the way nothing they’ve done before set me up to expect anything like their two most recent singles “Beam/s” and “The Room.” There’s some musical continuity with their past work but the sharp aesthetics of these new songs and the increased scale of their ambitions make them sound like a new band. They say they wanted the new music to reflect their interest in cinema and I absolutely hear it in the dynamic shifts that hit like cuts between shots, and in a palette that somehow sounds the way a high contrast black and white film looks. The vocals keep shifting along with the beats, bass, keys, and fake strings – sometimes it’s a casually confident recitation of poetic lines, sometimes it’s more of a whisper, sometimes it’s clearly sung with a touch of English R&B in the inflection. They’re pulling from a lot of inspirations but landing on something that feels very distinct, like they might have really figured out exactly who they are as a band this time around.

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