The Orielles announce new album Tableau

"Beam/s" is the band's first outing of 2022, following their La Vita Olistica soundtrack that arrived last year and featured reworked tracks from their 2020 album Disco Volador, and is teamed with a video co-directed by the band and Mackenzie AJ Thompson.

The Orielles' Esme Hand-Halford says of the new release, "This is a song that has travelled, grown and adapted with us through all of the seasons. This is why the lyrics kind of reflect that, the song reflects the changing of conditions. The warping of time, memories and relationships that you foster along the way. The original track was jammed at practice, Henry would bring his recording gear and it came about in quite an off the cuff way. I can’t remember how we really began jamming that. We further developed it whilst jamming at Eve Studios. We added distortion pedals and made it really big, but then going into the studio months later, maybe a year or more, we pared it back slightly. The majority of the song is just us in a room, a big room at that, which did the track a lot of justice. We wrote a visual score inspired by Wadada Leo Smith for this one, and then in the later half you hear the group percussion which is the final fallout of the song, and has nods to Afrobeat, where the majority of the song is taking this slowcore, emo feel to it. The track was originally titled "Brian Emo"."

The new single is also a first taster of their forthcoming album Tableau, which will follow 2020's Disco Volador. Tableau was produced by The Orielles in collaboration with Joel Anthony Patchett (King Krule, Tim Burgess), and was largely recorded in Eastbourne last summer.

While recording, the band used Oblique Strategies, a card-based method for promoting creativity that was co-created by Brian Eno. "We'd been speaking about wanting to use them for ages, and then we found a set of cards at the studio in Eastbourne," drummer Sidonie Hand-Halford says. "Before each song, we’d pick out a card and that would be our motif for playing that take."

1. Tracklist:
2. Chromo I
3. Chromo II
4. Airtight
5. The Instrument
6. Improvisation 001
7. Television
8. Some Day Later
9. Darkened Corners
10. Hornfleur Remembered
11. Beam/s
12. To Offer, To Erase
13. The Room
14. By Its Light
15. Transmission
16. Drawn And Defined
17. Stones