What goes around comes around, and nearly 25 years since their founding in Denton, Texas, multi-Platinum country band Eli Young Band have come home.Led by an unmistakable vocal and bringing a Texas-rock edge to modern country, the never-changinglineup of Mike Eli, James Young, Jon Jones, and Chris Thompson have spent two-plus decades on therun, growing from hometown heroes into globe-trotting, chart-topping pioneers. Yet in all that time,EYB never forgot its raising, and today the foursome reclaim the spirit behind their success.Returning to their independent roots, the bold creative defiance that launched them into the mainstream–and in many ways to their old stomping grounds–it’s a new chapter driven by experience and amillion miles of wisdom, from a band of brothers still very much in their prime.“We started this thing when we were like 20 years old, and it’s been such a crazy road and such alonger road than any of us could have conceptualized at the time,” says Jones. “I think right now feels alittle full circle, in a really nice way.”“Now, we get to step back into our Texas shoes,” Eli agrees. “I think this new stuff finds us reachingdeep into our past as a band. We’re remembering where the magic was–all those songs we wanted torecord for ourLevelrecord, that felt way too edgy for Country Radio at the time.”Indeed, after becoming icons of Texas’ vibrant college-bar scene–and then packing arenas all over thestate (without label support)–thatLevelalbum from 2005 landed like a live wire, injecting EYB intothe mainstream. They followed in 2008with their Gold-certified breakout “Always the Love Songs”andJet Black & Jealous,one of three career BillboardTop 5 albums which include the Number One10,000 Towns and PlatinumLife At Best.Likewise, back-to-back Number One singles came with the 5X Platinum “Crazy Girl” in 2011 and 3XPlatinum “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” (2012), plus the Platinum Number One “Drunk Last Night”and 2X Platinum Number One “Love Ain’t” after that. All along they kept the intensity of their liveshows front and center, and with a following which now includes more than 1.4 million Facebookfollowers, 2.2 million monthly Spotify listeners and more, it’s time to get back to the point.Ready to follow up 2022’sLove Talking, the band have returned to Panhandle House Studio in theirhometown of Denton–the same studio whereLevelwas born–bringing new tunes and newexcitement along with them. All co-written as a band or with long-trusted collaborators, a fresh batch ofsongs return EYB to the raw, grassroots energy and emotional sting of their early work, geared for thestage and recorded without digital tricks.For the band, being independent again for the first time in years isn’t a challenge, it’s a reward–andthey took the chance to embrace not just renewed creative freedom, but the fun of their self containedlive-band philosophy.