O_RLLY
O_ RLLY
Leeds
O_RLLY are a bittersweet synthy guitar pop band from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Originally conceived as a bedroom project during Covid lockdown by former Finnmark! bassist Owen Radford-Lloyd, the band has since expanded into a 6-piece act with friends from the ever-vibrant Leeds indie community. Taking particular inspiration from Alvvays’ sparkling melodicism and the white-collar weariness of The National, debut album Half Life is a record of fallibility, and a coming to terms with the loss of youthful idealism as adulthood stretches into the decades. These are songs of uncertainty in a world irrevocably altered by the pandemic, scarred and unsure but not entirely without a sense of optimism.