Blending sunny, laid-back indie pop with '90s alternative and 2000s post-punk influences, Australian duo Royel Otis have garnered critical buzz and chart attention. They broke through with a 2023 viral cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder on the Dance Floor," helping push their 2024 full-length debut, Pratts & Pain, into the Top Ten of the Aria Albums Chart. In 2025, they returned with Hickey, featuring the hit "Moody."
Guitarist Royel Maddell and singer/guitarist Otis Pavlovic had worked separately in the same circles around the beach town of Byron Bay, New South Wales. Ev...