Halifax//Liverpool disco pop/post-dance/surf band The Orielles have dropped the video for their new single "The Room".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their third studio album 'TABLEAU', which will be out in October 7th through Heavenly Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
The double album rewards serious immersion, as complex as it is diverse. Initially, there might appear to be little that links the Sonic Youth dirge of Television with the spectral, beatless Some Day Later. Or tracks like Hornflower Remembered and The Room, which carry the influence of the 21st century dance the band have been devouring, with the challenging extended song suite that makes up the album’s A-side. Further listening, however, reveals recurring motifs and sonic ideas that bind the album’s sixteen tracks together closely.
Legendary Manchester post-punk/funk band A Certain Ratio have revealed the video for their new single "Emperor Machine".
The song is taken from their new collaborations EP dedicated to Andrew Weatherall 'ACR:EPC', which will be out on July 2 via Mute. Pre-order your copy here.
All four tracks on ACR:EPC are collaborations. Emperor Machine is a collaboration with Andy Meecham, also known as Emperor Machine, YOYOGRIP is a collaboration with Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth and Jacknife Lee and Music Control is a collaboration with Chris Massey who remixed Dirty Boy in 2019. The track Guv’nor is inspired by longtime ACR friend Andrew Weatherall and is a collaboration in spirit.
Legendary Manchester post-punk/funk band A Certain Ratio have announced the release of their new album 'LOCO', their first in 12 years.
The 10-track album and their first since 2008’s Mind Made Up, will be out on September 25th via Mute. Pre-order your copy here.
ACR Loco feels like an accumulation of ACR's DNA from point zero in 1977 through to 2020 and sounds like a band who have effortlessly perfected their craft. An album to dance to, cry to, fall in love to and most importantly, to party to.
Loco was produced by the core ACR members Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, joined by long term partners Tony Quigley, Denise Johnson and Matt Steele, plus special guests Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor and Gemma Cullingford, Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey and Manchester luminaries Mike Joyce and Eric Random.
Speaking of the project, Kerr explained that “this album is a culmination of everything we’ve ever done. It distils the different directions and styles that have run throughout the band’s career – one that began in the late ‘70s with Factory Records first ever 7” release.”
Check out the album's tracklist and listen to new single "Always In Love," below.
LOCO tracklisting:
01. Friends Around Us
02. Bouncy Bouncy
03. Yo Yo Gi
04. Supafreak
05. Always In Love
06. Family
07. Get A Grip
08. Berlin
09. What’s Wrong
10. Taxi Guy
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have premiered their video for their latest single "7th Dynamic Goo".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their sophomore album 'Disco Volador', which came out in February this year through Heavenly Recordings. Get your copy here.
A cosmic quest from a Jetsons-inspired suburbia, to a sci-fi alien city nightclub. The video, directed and animated by Stacie Ant, is inspired by mid-century retro futurism, as well as cinematic cyberpunk culture.."
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have premiered their catchy new single "Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)".
The song is taken from their band's upcoming sophomore album 'Disco Volador', which will be out on 28th of February through Heavenly Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
The band's words: "Space Samba is a song about corporeal experience, something which we feel we are collectively losing sight of in an age of mental existentialism! It is the 'Disco Volador' theme because it relates to the phenomenological thread of the whole album, which tackles the many interpretations of the title throughout. In this instance, it refers to Disco Volador’s literal translation of ‘flying disc’ or ‘frisbee’, using this symbol to reflect both feelings of flight and motion and the notion of human connectivity."
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have announced the release of their brand new album 'Disco Volador'.
The follow-up to 2018's debut Silver Dollar Moment, will be out via Heavenly Recordings on February 28th, and sees the 4-piece push their sonic horizon to its outer limits as astral travellers, hitching a ride on the melodic skyway to evade the space-time continuum through a sharp collection of progressive strato-pop symphonies. Pre-order your copy here.
Voyaging through cinematic samba, 70s disco, deep funk boogies, danceable grooves and even tripping on 90s acid house, Disco Volador is set to propel The Orielles spinning into a higher zero-gravity orbit. Written and recorded in just 12 months, it captures the warp-speed momentum of their post-Silver Dollar Moment debut album success; an unforgettable summer touring, playing festivals like Green Man and bluedot, Disco Volador’s library catalogue vibes stem from a band lapping up and widening their pool of musical discovery whether nodding to Italian film score maestros Sandro Brugnolini and Piero Umiliani, or the Middle Eastern tones of Khruangbin and Altin Gün.
Check out the album's tracklist and listen to their new singles new single "Come Down On Jupiter" below.
Disco Volador tracklist:
01. Come Down On Jupiter
02. Rapid I
03. Memoirs Of Miso
04. Bobbi’s Second World
05. Whilst The Flowers Look
06. The Square Eyed Pack
07. 7th Dynamic Goo
08. A Material Mistake
09. Euro Borealis
10. Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have premiered their infectious new single "Bobbi's Second World".
The song b/w a cover of Peggy Gou's "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)" is out now through Heavenly Recordings.
Written with the addition of a new member on keys, Bobbi's Second World, exhibits an explosion of new sounds and ideas that came to fruition after a long summer of playing festivals and taking inspiration from music that made us dance. It centres around the story of a cat named Bobbi who, in order to become a lady, has to experience the extremities of two complex and differing realities- situated in her front and back gardens respectively. The eccentric instrumentation, influenced by northern soul, post-punk and funk music, matches the quirkiness of the lyrics to create a song that concerns a young cats maturity whilst displaying a certain maturity in the music itself.
Legendary Manchester post-punk/funk band A Certain Ratio have aired their brand new song "Make It Happen".
This is one of two brand new compositions (we have prevoisuly heard "Dirty Boy"), taken from their career spanning compilation 'ACR:SET', set to arrive on 12 October. Pre-order your copy here.
Legendary Manchester post-punk/funk band A Certain Ratio have revealed their new single "Dirty Boy" Feat. Barry Adamson and the voice of Tony Wilson.
This is the band's first new music since 2008’s Mind Made Up, and is taken from 'ACR:SET', a career spanning compilation, including two new tracks, released on coloured double vinyl, CD and digitally on 12 October 2018. Pre-order your copy here.
‘Dirty Boy’ is a classic slice of A Certain Ratio pop funk and features the voice of the late Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson, preparing the band for ‘The Fox’ recording session in his own inimitable fashion, plus vocals from Barry Adamson, who returns a favour to the band after they reworked 2017’s ‘I Got Clothes’.
The two new tracks, ‘Dirty Boy’ and ‘Make It Happen’ were recorded at Oxygene in Manchester, and both appear on the new best-of compilation, acr:set. The album is made up of tracks that feature in the band’s incendiary live show (hence the title) and includes rare 7” and 12” mixes alongside the two new recordings and sleeve notes by DJ and writer Dave Haslam.
Take a listen below.
A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in Manchester in 1978, the band has had various members throughout their career, with a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson that remains today.
An influence on generations of musicians - from LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor, Sink Ya Teeth and Andrew Weatherall – the band’s involvement in cultural touchpoints is sometimes unexpected: a recent exhibition centred on Stockport’s Strawberry Studios uncovered the tape box, but not the tapes, from a recording session with Grace Jones back in 1980 and Madonna’s live debut was supporting A Certain Ratio at the infamous Danceteria in New York in 1982 (where she was working as a hatcheck girl), and sometimes expected, given the unique time and place that they formed – Manchester in 1978, one of the first acts to sign to the newly formed Factory Records.
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have revealed the video for their latest single "Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their debut album 'Silver Dollar Moment', released last month (February 16th) through Heavenly Recordings. Buy it here.
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have aired the video for their latest single "Let Your Dogtooth Grow".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming debut album 'Silver Dollar Moment' set for release in February 16th 2018 through Heavenly Recordings.
The video was filmed and edited by Sam Boullier. Take a look below.
Halifax//Liverpool post-dance/surf/garage psych band The Orielles have released their new single "Let Your Dogtooth Grow".
The song is the first single from their upcoming debut album 'Silver Dollar Moment' set for release in February 2018 through Heavenly Recordings.
Taking influence from Lanthimos’ abstruse, fictitious world where kids are brainwashed into thinking that they are confined within the boundaries of their household until their ‘Dogtooth’ falls out, the lyrics discuss how in reality, people our age face similar (albeit less bizarre) forms of oppression. Whilst we’re much more than a stones throw away from knocking our teeth out in order to break from the omnipresent restrictions us teenagers and young adults face, it’s still something that really bugs us as a ‘young band’! When are you gonna let us out of the house?
