BOYO is the artist moniker of LA-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Robert Tilden (he/they). A breakup, a scrapped album, a sold-out tour, kidney stones, and collaborative songwriting are all the genesis of BOYO's funky, psychedelic new LP'Echoes Like Memories,'out March 11 on Park The Van.
After his relationship's romance faded, Rob Tilden (BOYO) embarked on a tour with bedroom-pop contemporaries Luna Luna in November/December of 2021: playing sold out shows on the West Coast and in the South, reinvigorating Tilden's love of playing more 'upbeat and funky tunes' that get a crowd moving. The only problem was, he had already completed an album to be released in March of 2022 and it was full of depressing, meditative emo songs that Tilden felt less and less connected to. With only a month to turn in what he envisioned as a "short, poppy batch of greatest hits" Tilden holed up in his usual basement studio now equipped with slightly better gear and a reel-to-reel tape machine.
