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Disco Volador

The Orielles

Disco Volador

Second album from Halifax, England DIY indie pop band produced by Marta Salogni (Little Boots, HMLTD, Django Django)

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Heavenly Recordings
UK Release date
28/02/2020
US Release date
28/02/2020
  1. 8.0 |   Q

    Both instantly appealing and dazzling inventive. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Long Live Vinyl

    Occasionally, some tracks outstay their welcome but most, like Rapid 1, Bobbi’s Second World and album closer Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme), are pop gems beamed down to earth from another planet
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    These kids know exactly what they want to do and they have the skills and imagination to make it work like an improbable magic trick. Which is what a band needs to beat the sophomore slump as decisively as they do here
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Feels like a journey into a world undiscovered, without ever feeling too alien
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  5. 7.0 |   Clash

    The Orielles are the antithesis of the February blues. So, if you’re in the mood to get summer started ahead of schedule, let this little ray of sunshine into your life
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  6. 7.0 |   DIY

    A perfectly pleasant, but definitely passive listen
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  7. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    On Disco Volador, the Orielles offer a thrift shop of sounds and gratify those who like their indie rock danceable
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  8. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Suggest the euphoria of whooshing through infinite space past astral displays of imagined beauty via a blend of disco funk, dream pop, electronic exotica and '70s highlife. Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Highlights: Tropicalia-Afro-funk fusion Bobbie's Second World; 7th Dynamic Goo's silvery disco. Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The Halifax trio experiment with different textures on their second album and their sharp songwriting leaves an impression
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  11. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    What we all need is a great new rock band that draws on a forgotten corner of the music of yore, and The Orielles definitely could be that band – but there’s nothing here that will make you put away your old records just yet
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  12. 6.0 |   A.V. Club

    Halifax’s finest purveyors of indie ear-candy, The Orielles, stretch out and expand their art-rock sound into dizzy dream-pop and giddy space-funk textures on their magisterial second album
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