Stream: BOYO, ‘Feel’

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BOYO (Photo by Patrick Jewett)

Points to Robert Tilden — aka BOYO — for eight months of quarantine well-spent.

In June, BOYO released their fourth album, “Where Have All My Friends Gone?,” a collection of washed-out but endearing psych-pop born of his struggles with a rare form of epilepsy. He called the album “a one-sided therapy session.”

The session will continue with the Dec. 11 release of another new album with a pandemic-suited title, “Alone Together in Los Angeles.” The songs on the album (like its predecessor, being released by Park the Van) were written during the same period as those on “Friends,” but the new album professes to illuminate BOYO’s brighter side.

The lead single “Feel” tip-toes in on warm, warped synth, wrestling with an existential question: To feel, or not to feel? “This song is a back and forth, insecurities flying,” Tilden says. “Not wanting to feel when feelings are overtaking every inch of you.”

||| Stream: “Feel”

||| Previously: “Backseat Driver,” “Hit or Miss,” “Take Me Away”