Silver Dollar Moment

One of the most exciting young bands in the country right now, Halifax's fast-rising The Orielles, recorded their debut album at Eve Studio in Stockport in the late summer of 2017 with producer du jour Marta Salongi (Bjork, Insecure Men). The band is made up of sisters Sidonie B and Esmé Dee Hand Halford and their best friend Henry Carlyle Wade, still aged only 21, 18 & 17 respectively. Across 45- minutes, the album itself takes all kinds of turns, into ESG-ish yips and funk, dreamy-arch harmonies, disco synth-pows and stoner bongos, unsettling submerged voices - with all that and more it still flows like a fountain of indie pop, fresh and catchy and altogether. The songs themselves are inspired by cinema, literature and physiological details of domestic animals. "So many pop songs are about relationships or growing up or whatever," they say. "We wanted to write a few songs that make people think, What the hell is that about?" As for the album title - "It's anything that's unexpectedly brilliant," explains Henry. "We played in Toronto, at this bar called the Silver Dollar Room. We'd been in Canada for 36 hours, no sleep, we'd already played at 10, then we played a show at the Silver Dollar at 2am and it was one of the best shows we've played. So a silver dollar moment became anything that's good, but unexpectedly."