KOYO ARE BACK WITH A NEW ALT-ROCK SINGLE & AUTUMN UK SHOWS

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After a festival-slaying start to the summer that built on press acclaim and national radio airplay for their Spring single Before, Leeds psych-rockers KOYO are back today with their immediate, grungy new track Circles. With Circles streamlining their expansive psych soundscapes into a tight alt-rock framework, the band have also announced a run of UK tour dates for the Autumn including shows in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton and Manchester.

Circles Video is here.

Circles is on Spotify here.

“When we started writing songs for the new album, we realised we were trying too hard to create our best work and ideas started to feel too convoluted and contrived,” explains frontman Huw Edwards. “We remembered that we needed to trust our gut and switch off the conscious side of our brains, without worrying about whether it’s gonna be any good or not. Circles was a breakthrough in that respect. It came together so quickly and felt so authentic to what was truly inside of us, lyrically and musically. We were getting really inspired sonically by early Smashing Pumpkins and bands like Pavement, and generally wanted to give things their own space rather than throwing a million ideas at the wall. Circles is about trying to rescue a relationship and being stuck in a cycle of wanting something to work – but continuously not being able to make it work for reasons almost beyond your control.”

KOYO will play the following shows in September/October – 

1st Sep – Bingley Weekender

24th Sep – Gullivers, Manchester

26th Sep – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham

27th Sep – Electric, Brighton

29th Sep – The Old Blue Last, London

8th Oct – The Wardrobe, Leeds

22nd Oct – The Polar Bear, Hull

For ticket info, head to koyoband.com now.