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. Otis Pavlovic 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 onJimmy Kimmel Live on 16 October.
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’.
IF OUR LOVE IS DEAD IS OUT NOW – BUY / STREAM HERE
‘PRATTS & PAIN (IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT ENDS)’ IS OUT NOW
UPCOMING AUSTRALIAN 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
With thanks to Thinking Loud
