Video premiere: BOYO, ‘Hit or Miss’

Kevin Bronson on September 28th, 2018

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BOYO’s wobbly, warbly psychedelic pop seems the stuff of fever dreams, infectious meditations turned fractured fairy tales told in songwriter Robert Tilden’s pre-adolescent falsetto. Ten minutes with him, and you want to give him and hug, and then ask him to play some more.

Today, BOYO announces that his third full-length, “Dance Alone,” will be out Nov. 9 via Danger Collective Records; it’s his second full-length this year (following January’s “Me, Again”) and represents the next chapter for the prolific 22-year-old who nearly didn’t get to turn the page. A little over a year ago, Tilden suffered a Grand Mal seizure right before an L.A. show, and after the recurring events that followed, he was prescribed anti-convulsive medication that left him depressed. He stayed home a lot and recorded.

“‘Dance Alone’ is about polarity in life,” Tilden says. “When shit hits the fan, sometimes you just want to dance alone. It’s an album where heaviness and light-self-awareness coexist on the same plane.”

Director Nathan Castiel captures that isolation in the video for the single “Hit or Miss,” which makes staying home sound like the hippest thing ever. “I wanted to toggle the lines between Amy Winehouse, Flight of the Concords and Connan Mockasin, by interpolating older soul elements but taking my modern, sardonic take on life and putting that in the forefront,” Tilden says. “I wanted to take something so un-sexy, like staying inside and drawing (something I regularly do) and put it over a nasty beat, essentially.”

Enjoy this one on your couch.

||| Watch: The video for “Hit or Miss”