Blind Yeo, the emerging collective from Cornwall’s Psychedelic scene, have officially announced their debut album, “The Lemoine Point,” set to be released on August 28, 2026, via Bongo Joe Records. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared the official video for their track “Colour Pillow / Kologo.”
Watch the official video for “Colour Pillow / Kologo” via the YouTube player below:
Based in Cornwall, Blind Yeo have emerged in recent years as one of the most distinctive voices in the UK’s Psychedelic landscape. Born out of the isolation of lockdown before taking shape during a formative residency at The Cornish Bank, the project developed as an open-ended collective, bringing together musicians, visual artists and performers around a deeply collaborative practice. On stage, Blind Yeo quickly move beyond the format of a band, becoming a total experience shaped by trance, improvisation and real-time construction, where sound, bodies and images intertwine in a constantly shifting form.
With “The Lemoine Point,” their debut album, the collective reaches a new phase. Recorded on a disused airfield near St Agnes, at the heart of the landscape that feeds their music, the record marks a clear shift: no longer just capturing the intensity of their live performances, it translates that energy into a more focused and inhabited form, capable of articulating a broader vision.
The title itself acts as a key. In geometry, the Lemoine point refers to a hidden centre, not immediately visible, where the lines of a triangle converge. Blind Yeo adopt this idea as a compositional principle, bringing together different temporalities, narratives and emotional states into a single moment. The album becomes a point of anchoring where past, present and future coexist, where memory, grief, desire and projection are woven into the same sonic fabric.
Musically, “The Lemoine Point” deepens and expands the directions explored in their earlier recordings. Much of the album was captured live, driven by an extended core ensemble — Sam Pert on drums, Phil Self on guitars, Henry Greenham on synths, Philippa Blum on cello, Jake Sheridan on bass, alongside Will Greenham and Anouska Helm on vocals, guitars and songwriting — whose interplay allows a raw, almost ritual energy to circulate. Around this foundation, more intimate sessions refine the material, introducing softer and more delicate textures, further enriched by string arrangements from Matthew Kelly.
The writing draws freely from narrative traditions, only to reframe them in a contemporary context. Fragments of older stories, such as “Frik and Frack” inspired by Italo Calvino, are reactivated to explore duality, the tension between opposing forces and the search for an inner centre. From the opening track “Today Tomorrow,” the album establishes a fractured relationship to time, caught between disorientation and the attempt to regain balance, as if each piece were working towards a fragile and constantly shifting equilibrium.
Rooted in a specific territory yet open outward, “The Lemoine Point” also captures something of a collective moment. The Cornish landscape, its communities and the dynamics that shape them become integral to the record. This connection to place does not result in a fixed or nostalgic folklore, but in a living material shaped by multiple influences, where psychedelia, folk traditions and electronic practices coexist without hierarchy.
With this debut album, Blind Yeo assert a singular form that is both immersive and structured, moving beyond conventional formats. More than a recording, “The Lemoine Point” acts as a point of convergence, an attempt to grasp a state of the world through sound, allowing its tensions, contradictions and impulses to exist side by side.
Pre-Order “The Lemoine Point” on Bandcamp: https://blindyeo.bandcamp.com/album/the-lemoine-point
Tracklist:
01. Today / Tomorrow
02. Hour Glass of the Eye
03. Colour Pillow / Kologo
04. Memory to the Soil
05. ight Side of the Round
06. The Lemoine Point
07. Frik and Frak
08. Magnolia
The album is available for pre-order in multiple formats, including Vinyl, CD, and Cassette. Following the release, the band will be performing across Europe and the UK, with dates including stops in France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland throughout the Summer.
Lineup:
Will Greenham / Guitar, Vocals
Anoushka Helm / Vocals, Synth
Sam Pert / Drums, Percussion
Phil Self / Guitar
Jake Sheridan / Bass
Henry Greenham / Synth
Phyllida Bluemel / Cello, Artwork
Matt Kelly / Strings
Louis Crowe / Percussion