THE ORIELLES Silver Dollar Moment LP Blue Vinyl NEW 2018

Mango
Old Stuff
New Stuff Sunflower Seeds
Let Your Dog Tooth Grow
Liminal Spaces
The Sound Of Liminal Spaces (Edit)
I Only Bought It For The Bottle
Henry’s Pocket
48 Percent
Borrachero Tree
Snaps
Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)

Sidonie Hand Halford is a Christmas temp at the Post Office in Liverpool, her younger sister Esme is studying English literature at Manchester and their friend Henry Wade is preparing to sit his A-levels in Halifax next summer. They’re also about to release their first album and it’s a beauty.


From the first jangling sunshine chords on opening track Mango, Silver Dollar Moments announces itself as a proper piece of indie pop goodness. Then, across 45 minutes, it 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.


Maybe one reason it all coheres so beautifully is that The Orielles are a close-knit unit: two sisters and their best mate. “We met Henry at a house party a few years ago,” says Sid. “I mean, it’s a bit lamer than that sounds. It was a friend of our parents, she was having a 40th birthday party, and we went along, and Henry was there too, with his parents.”


Initial LP copies are pressed on blue vinyl.