Photo: Ellie Ramsden

Blind Yeo have announced their debut album The Lemoine Point, an eight-track release drawing on various genres and influences, including psychedelia, folk, desert blues, Krautrock and North African trance-rock. Based in Falmouth on the Cornish coast, the band have become closely tied to the town’s creative community, growing around local venue The Cornish Bank. Founded by singer and guitarist Will Greenham, Blind Yeo work more as an ever-changing collective of multidisciplinary musicians than a fixed band, with different collaborators passing through the project over time. The Lemoine Point explores themes of grief, spirituality and connection, but there’s also a strong sense of joy running through it all.

The album arrives on August 28th through Bongo Joe Records and as an exciting introduction to it, Blind Yeo have shared lead single ‘Colour Pillow / Kologo’, an hypnotic, warm and rhythmic track, inspired in part by the sound of the kologo, a traditional instrument from Ghana often played during funeral ceremonies. That contrast between mourning and joy sits at the centre of the song, and it captures what Blind Yeo do so well. As Greenham puts it, the project exists to “remind ourselves, and anyone listening, that there are things which connect us… even when everything around us is trying to divide us.”

‘Colour Pillow / Kolog’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Ruby Ingleheart and you can watch it below.