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Jun 03, 2026 By Dom Gourlay Photography by Adam Houghton

Nottingham trio Eyre Llew release “Oban” today, the third single from their forthcoming second album, Bloom, which comes out on Friday 18th September.

Named after the unofficial capital of the West Highlands, “Oban” is built around a feeling most people recognize but rarely articulate: the pull towards a place you’ve never lived but somehow already belong to. For Eyre Llew, that place is the Scottish west coast—white sand beaches, open lochs, a landscape that slows the pulse and sharpens the senses all at once. The lyric “my blood is blue” runs deeper still—part physical rush, part quiet reckoning with identity and the kind of belonging that doesn’t need a postcode to be real. Simple, honest, and quietly devastating.

“‘Oban’ is about longing for a slower, quieter life—the feeling of belonging to a place you don’t yet live, but already feel connected to,” the band explain. “It’s drawn from years of family holidays on the Scottish west coast, swims in lochs, time with loved ones in that landscape. At its core it’s about imagining a future built on peace, family, and escape. A dream of one day living somewhere that feels like freedom, even before it’s real. It’s home—but one we don’t know yet.”

Beginning with quiet intimacy before building to something genuinely anthemic, “Oban” showcases Eyre Llew at their most cinematic — a post-rock slow-burn that earns every moment of its crescendo. It’s the kind of song that could only come from a band who’ve been somewhere and returned changed. Eyre Llew spent years in relentless forward motion—touring over 20 countries, playing Glastonbury, fielding label interest at what felt like a breakthrough moment—before lockdown brought everything to an abrupt halt.

Their upcoming album Bloom is the result. Eleven tracks mastered at Abbey Road Studios, recorded during an intense week at Finkle Barn with engineer and bass player Russ Clark, and written across years of isolation on the Yorkshire Moors, at home, and in the quiet spaces where the real work happens. The album draws from lived experience with a directness the band haven’t shown before—moving cities for love, holding someone through anxiety, learning to imagine a future built on rootedness rather than momentum. “It’s about the moment everything slowed down and we chose something real—love, home, and growth—instead of just motion,” they say. “It’s the sound of things finally taking root.”

Sonically, Bloom retains the vast, cinematic quality that led BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins to call Eyre Llew “Britain’s answer to Sigur Rós”—but there’s a new restraint at work here, a willingness to let fragility and space carry the weight. The record doesn’t chase scale. It earns it. New material has already won over audiences at the band’s sold-out comeback show at Nottingham’s 550-capacity Saltbox, with Under the Radar calling “Oban” Eyre Llew’s most straightforward pop song to date.

Cinematic in scope and unhurried in pace, Eyre Llew are post-rock that doesn’t just fill a room—they transform it. To mark the release, the band will play their biggest-ever hometown headline show at The Nest on Saturday September 19th—tickets available HERE—the night after the album drops. Created in collaboration with a lighting director, the show is designed as a fully immersive production: a bespoke visual environment built around the world of Bloom, unlike anything the band have attempted on stage before. For a band that has spent years in motion, it’s a bold and deliberate choice to plant their flag somewhere, and invite everyone in.

Read our recent interview with Eyre Llew HERE.

The band also play The Grace in London on Tuesday 16th June (tickets available HERE).

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