| BOYO—the artist moniker of LA-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Robert Tilden (they/them)— releases two new singles: the early 2000s inspired “Escape Plan” and “We Never Turn Our Lights Off.” The tracks are from an upcoming album that take influence from the music that songwriter Tilden grew up on. “These songs were inspired by going back to a formative time for me: early 2000’s guitar-bands–and mining melodic, rhythmic, and sonic ideas from those records,” Tilden explains. “Shedding some of the lo-fi aesthetic of earlier works, these songs are slightly higher-fidelity, punchier, and direct. Inspired by The Strokes, Interpol, The Walkmen, and other bands of that era, there is a duality of deep brooding and lively instrumentals.” “Escape Plan” and “We Never Turn Our Lights Off” follow BOYO’s 2020 albums ‘Alone Together In Los Angeles’ and the critically acclaimed ‘Where Have All My Friends Gone?’ While Where Have All My Friends Gone? was influenced by the lush melancholy of songwriters like Bradford Cox (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) and Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Alone Together in Los Angeles was inspired by the back-and-forth piano and guitar stylings of John and Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band and the playful, compressed production of hip-hop luminary Madlib. |
BOYO channels early 2000s nostalgia on “Escape Plan” and “We Never Turn Our Lights Off”
