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Photo – Alex Wall

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“This duo from Australia, nuts, just NUTS… absolutely flawless” – Zane Lowe, Apple Music

“Australia’s next breakout indie heroes” – NME ★★★★

“It’s an absolute treat of an album that feels nothing short of decadent” – DORK ★★★★

“‘PRATTS & PAIN’ is a leap forward… being comfortable with their sound being as eclectic as they are” – CLASH 8/10

“…(Royel Otis) make guitar-led music sound like the coolest thing in the world” – Rolling Stone Australia

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Australia’s rising indie stars Royel Otis have released the deluxe edition of their Top 10 ARIA-charting debut album PRATTS & PAIN – It Ain’t Over Til It Ends – available now via OURNESS, with vinyl out this Friday. To celebrate, the duo have treated fans to a heart-racing new single, “If Our Love Is Dead”.

Warm, compelling and festival-ready, today’s track wrestles with the delicacy of a fading romance. OtisPavlovic and Royel Maddell question whether to cling to a love that has dimmed or to courageously embrace the possibility of moving on, opening up space for listeners to contemplate their own experiences. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winner Mikey Freedom Hart (Taylor Swift, ASAP Rocky, Lana Del Rey), Royel Otis pull out some of their most vibrant instrumental work to-date, layering crashing hooks, captivating guitar lines and Otis’ signature choruses into a stadium-sized anthem. 

The final jewel in the PRATTS & PAIN crown, “If Our Love Is Dead” closes out the deluxe edition It Ain’t Over Til It Ends, following on from Royel Otis’ releases of the joyously fizzy “Claw Foot”, grunge-tuned “Merry Mary Marry Me” and tender “Til The Morning” – the latter which saw a first play on Apple Music’s New Music Daily with Zane Lowe. Royel Otis say on the single: “‘If Our Love Is Dead’ was born out of that feeling when you’ve been with someone for a while and you’re not sure if the spark is still there. You’re like… If it’s dead and it’s not there, then what are we holding on to? What are we doing it for? Are we doing it for the sake of just sticking it out, or do we actually just want to cut paths and move on with things?”

Today’s deluxe release follows last week’s grand ARIA reveal that saw Royel Otis named the highest nominated artist for the upcoming 2024 Awards, having accumulated an incredible eight nominations, spanning the following categories – Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Indie Release, Best Rock Album, Best Aussie Live Act, Best Engineered, Best Producer and Song of the Year for their cover of “Murder on the Dancefloor” (triple j Like a Version). This is the second consecutive year the duo have been nominated, following a nod at the 2023 Awards for Breakthrough Artist. Next up, Royel Otis make their US late-night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live on 16 October.

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Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dan Carey (Wet Leg), PRATTS & PAIN debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart, #1 on the Top 20 Vinyl Albums Chart, #10 on the ARIA Albums Chart plus garnered worldwide critical acclaim among BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Matt Wilkinson, Clash and NME (alongside magazine covers at home and in the UK), with the duo reaching #1 Most Played Artist at US college radio across music specialty shows. They took the record on a sold out 15-date headline tour across Australia, bringing the pair’s electric live show to fans nationally and proof of Royel Otis’ swift ascent into the upper echelons of modern indie royalty.

Skyrocketing Royel Otis to even greater heights was their phenomenal triple j Like A Version recording of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder On The Dancefloor”. Achieving #1 on the Mediabase Alternative Rock Chart, Top 5 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay Chart and Rock and Alternative Airplay Chart and #2 on ARIA’s Top 20 Australian Singles – the cover quickly propelled to gold certification in Australia, alongside the duo’s beloved gold-certified original, “Oysters In My Pocket”, which has surpassed 100 million streams. Then came another rapturous cover moment in their SiriusXM Session performance of The Cranberries “Linger”. Their soul-wrenching rendition topped viral charts – generating 1 billion LTD views with 25 million+ on the original TikTok post, 18 million+ YouTube views and 70 million+ streams to date – not to mention, saw the duo land their first entry into the Billboard Hot 100 and has now also been certified gold.

Amassing over half a billion streams across their discography with 400 million of those occurring in the last 12 months, Royel Otis have covered global playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, plus accumulated 9 million+ monthly listeners on Spotify. This comes on top of support from Zane Lowe, Matt Wilkinson at Apple Music 1, NME, BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Vogue, GQ and featuring on GRAMMY’s ‘Ones To Watch List’. Following their sold out national tour, the duo jetted across the world on debut sold out headline tours of the UK, Europe and the US. Overwhelming demand saw each tour expand with additional dates and venue upgrades, with the duo expected to sell over 100k tickets globally this year – building upon an already impressive resumé of festival appearances – from Primavera Festival, to Reading & Leeds Festivals, Sziget, Green Man, Boston Calling and more.

Currently, Royel Otis are back in the United States for their second sold out national tour of the year, amassing over 60k headline tickets in that region alone. They will finish off 2024 with another sold out lap of Europe and the UK, before jetting home to Australia for a run of festival performances at Lost Paradise, Beyond The Valley and Wildlands.

Dive into the technicolour, deluxe world of Royel Otis through the latest edition of PRATTS & PAIN.

TOUR DATES BELOW

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“IF OUR LOVE IS DEAD” IS OUT NOW
BUY/STREAM HERE
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

BUY THE PRATTS & PAIN DELUXE VINYL HERE

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ROYEL OTIS
PRATTS & PAIN
(IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT ENDS)
Track List

1. Adored
2. Fried Rice
3. Foam
4. Sonic Blue
5. Claw Foot
6. Heading For The Door
7. Merry Mary Marry Me
8. Velvet
9. If Our Love Is Dead
10. IHYSM
11. Molly
12. Daisy Chain
13. Sofa King
14. Glory To Glory
15. Til The Morning  
16. Always Always
17. Big Ciggie

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ROYEL OTIS
Tour Dates

MORE INFORMATION HERE

US GLORY TO GLORY TOUR

with Friko*

Friday 11 October – Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin TX
Monday 14 October – The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT*
Tuesday 15 October – The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT*
Wednesday 16 October – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA*
Thursday 17 October – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA – SOLD OUT*
Friday 18 October – Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA*
Sunday 20 October – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR – SOLD OUT*
Monday 21 October – The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA – SOLD OUT*
Tuesday 22 October – PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC*
Friday 12 December – The Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO

EU / UK TOUR DATES

with Viji

Monday 28 October – Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 29 October – Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway – SOLD OUT
Thursday 31 October – Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden – SOLD OUT
Friday 01 November – Musikens Hus, Gothenburg, Sweden – SOLD OUT
Saturday 02 November – Den Grå Hal, Copenhagen, Denmark – SOLD OUT
Sunday 03 November – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 05 November – Metropol, Berlin, Germany – SOLD OUT
Thursday 07 November – Hybrydy, Warsaw, Poland
Friday 08 November – Arena Wien, Vienna, Austria – SOLD OUT
Saturday 09 November – Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, Czechia – SOLD OUT
Monday 11 November – Theaterfabrik, Munich, Germany – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 12 November – Santeria Toscana 31, Milan, Italy – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 13 November – Kaufleuten, Zurich, Switzerland – SOLD OUT
Friday 15 November – WiZink Center, Madrid, Spain – SOLD OUT
Saturday 16 November – Sala Apollo, Barcelona, Spain – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 19 November – Trix, Antwerp, Belgium – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 20 November – Le Trianon, Paris, France – SOLD OUT
Friday 22 November – Stadthalle, Cologne, Germany – UPGRADE
Saturday 23 November – Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands – SOLD OUT
Sunday 24 November – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 26 November – Marble Factory, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 27 November – Troxy, London, UK – SOLD OUT
Friday 29 November – SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Saturday 30 November – Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK – SOLD OUT
Sunday 01 December – Stylus, Leeds, UK – SOLD OUT
Monday 03 December – Manchester Academy, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 04 December – The Academy, Dublin, Ireland – SOLD OUT

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AU TOUR DATES

Saturday 28 December – Wednesday 1 January, 2025 – Lost Paradise, Glenworth Valley, NSW
Saturday 28 December – Wednesday 1 January, 2025 – Beyond The Valley, Hesse, VIC
Tuesday 31 December – Wildlands, Brisbane, QLD
Saturday 4 December – Wildlands, Perth, WA
Sunday 5 January – Wildlands, Adelaide, SA

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