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Vinyl LP pressed onto 140g vinyl with digital download code.

“You’ve got to die and be reborn between albums,” begins
Henry Wade, guitarist for The Orielles, describing the
foundations of the band’s fourth studio album, ‘Only You
Left’. “It comes naturally,” adds singer and bassist Esmé
Hand-Halford, “it’s not something we consciously do.”
Through this process of creative renewal, the Manchester-
based trio – completed by drummer Sidonie Hand-Halford –
have managed to weather a Pandemic, defy the fickleness
of a trend-led music industry and emerge, phoenix-like,
with something familiarly Orielles, yet altogether different.
Recorded in two locations – Hydra and Hamburg – over the
Summer of 2024, the 11 tracks of ‘Only You Left’ sees the
band consolidate the bold experimentation of their
previous album, ‘Tableau’ (2022), with a return to the more
stripped-back, song-led approach of their early origins.
“There’s nothing more trad than a three-piece,” quips
Henry, in reference to the band’s decision to return to their
roots as a trio. Originally from Halifax, The Orielles first
came to recognition in 2018 with their debut album, the
indie-rock ‘Silver Dollar Moment’, which is approaching its
eighth birthday in February 2026. “These things come in
like seven-year cycles. So we’ve come in like a full circle
back to a familiar place, just as different people.”
By exploring binaries and contrasts, The Orielles are
finding shapes in the chaos and confusion of the world
around us – it’s an undertaking that benefits from more
than 15 years of close collaboration, driven by friendship
and the artistic compulsion to find meaning in music.

Tracklisting:

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