Brooklyn indie-pop outfit Boys Go To Jupiter are entering what might be their most ambitious era yet. With the release of their new EP Now You’re A Circle, out now via High Rotation Records, the band have unveiled the first chapter in an interconnected trilogy of releases exploring identity, intimacy, and perception.

Blending joyful indie-pop, dreamy soul, folk textures, and bursts of sugary punk, the trio have steadily built a reputation for emotionally charged songwriting and theatrical live performances. Across seven tracks, Now You’re A Circle turns its gaze outward, dissecting relationships through character studies steeped in heartbreak, voyeurism, humour, and existential tension.

Alongside the EP, the band have also announced a 14-city U.S. headline tour beginning in Boston on March 26, including a hometown performance at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on April 17.

We caught up with the band to discuss the conceptual framework behind the EP trilogy, the emotional contradictions at the heart of their music, and why love might be both the simplest and hardest thing to understand.

From the outset, Now You’re A Circle was designed as something larger than a standalone release. The band envisioned three separate EPs organised around three perspectives: the self, someone else, and the relationship between the two.

“When we first started talking about NYAC, the three of us looked at each other and asked what it meant for us to make music specifically together,” the band explain. “After a few beers and grilled cheeses, the conversation came down to an excitement about each other’s perspectives — where we aligned and where we differed. We are three distinct people with unique songwriting voices, and it felt compelling to explore the idea of who gets the mic on each EP.”

Rather than beginning with introspection, the trio intentionally chose to open the story by looking outward.

“Often, I think we naturally start by looking outward,” they say. “Sometimes it feels easier to observe someone else’s flaws or triumphs before recognising them in ourselves.”

That decision also sets up an intriguing narrative reversal for the next release.

“By presenting the outward perspective first, we hope the next EP creates a kind of contextualisation for everything that has already been said,” they continue. “A listener may suddenly be forced to contend with whether they trust the narrator of Now You’re A Circle based on how they speak about themselves later.”

Throughout the EP, each song feels like its own contained emotional universe. Whether it’s the tension of Wake Up Layla or the spiralling desperation of ii. The Rules of You, the record approaches relationships almost like theatrical monologues.

“At the end of the day, all songs come from somewhere within a personal emotion,” the band explains. “However, with NYAC, we tried to treat each song like a little character study. We wanted the essence of each song’s subject to feel clear and definable.”



That storytelling approach naturally fed into one of the project’s biggest themes: voyeurism.

“I think intimacy starts with voyeurism,” they say. “Getting to know a person is perhaps the most intimate thing anyone can do. Observing a person’s habits, likes, and dislikes, and creating your own narrative is what relationships are all about.”

Still, the band are careful not to present a single answer or moral judgement.

“The three of us have very different feelings about what you’re meant to do with the information you receive,” they add. “The experiment of exploring how we see things felt intriguing.”

That ambiguity is especially present on tracks like Wake Up Layla and (Sunshine) Never Trust Anybody Named Jeanette, songs that place listeners directly inside uncomfortable perspectives.

“Loving someone comes with a lot of judgment,” they explain. “To love someone fully means you probably know things about them that you don’t like.”

For the band, the tension between affection and criticism is part of what makes relationships feel emotionally real.

“Wake Up Layla attempted to say that the feelings of love and hate are actually very similar,” they say. “It’s not a bad thing to dislike certain things about a person you love — in fact, maybe it’s even good.”

Musically, Boys Go To Jupiter thrive on contrast. Now You’re A Circle constantly shifts between euphoric indie-pop choruses and deeply existential lyricism, often within the same song.

“We love playing with that tension,” Caleb says. “Mostly because it’s fun. When you pair a certain sound with unexpected lyrical content, you realize all sorts of new dynamics in the way the two interact with each other.”

That tonal flexibility also allows the band to explore multiple shades of intimacy across the tracklist.

“‘You’ doesn’t feel like a monolith on this EP,” Caleb explains. “Some relationships are uglier than others, funnier, playful, or more tender.”

Songs like Revenge Tour and Do It Over lean into swagger and playful arrogance, while tracks such as Handstand and Flying Machine carry a softer emotional weight.

“We love a melancholy song,” Caleb says. “Handstand is repetitive and blurrier as it progresses, almost like a memory slipping away. Flying Machine is sweeter and more intricate. For me, both hit that sad/joy sweet spot in different ways.”

The emotional centrepiece of the EP, however, may be ii. The Rules of You, a song driven by obsession and emotional overload.

“We wanted something that would feel looser and more raw,” Caleb explains. “As if the emotions were so overwhelming they couldn’t be packaged neatly. Almost like a diary entry scribbled out in panic.”

By stripping away polish and traditional structure, the band aimed to bring listeners directly into the emotional chaos.

“I think maybe that’s how we consume other people emotionally,” he says. “Impulsively. Without thinking. For better or worse.”

The EP closes on an intentionally unresolved note, ending with the fragmented line: “me and you, you and me, like the sky, like the sea, I know you, you know…”

Rather than offering clarity, the band wanted the conclusion to linger in uncertainty.

“Ending on a cliffhanger leaves the door open for more,” Caleb explains. “But it also supports the idea that the song feels raw and unfinished — like someone too overcome by emotion to finish the thought.”

That openness perfectly reflects the larger themes running through the trilogy.

“In love, what’s really real?” the band ask. “What can we trust?”

Even the balance between theatricality and vulnerability became central to the creative process.

“Being theatrical is a storytelling tool in the same way being spare and close to the bone is,” Caleb says. “What’s exciting about this band is constantly trying to tease out the right way to tell each story.”

With a growing fanbase and more than five million global streams, Boys Go To Jupiter are now translating the EP’s emotional world into a live setting on their current U.S. headline tour.

“The tour was an absolute blast,” Caleb says. “We were worried about how we’d capture the drama and intimacy of the concept in an hour-long show, but once we got started it felt seamless.”

One standout moment comes during Sunshine, when the band invite a fan onstage to participate directly in the performance.

“They hold cards with lyrics, everybody sings along, and the whole thing becomes theatrical in a really joyful way,” he says. “It reminds me how powerful songs can be when they take people on a narrative journey.”

As for what comes next, the band promise the upcoming EPs will deepen and complicate everything listeners think they understand about Now You’re A Circle.

“If this first EP looks outward at relationships, the next one looks inward,” they explain. “It’s about understanding the observer — their fears, hopes, anxieties, and how they see themselves.”

The final chapter, meanwhile, will explore the tension between those opposing viewpoints.

“As listeners, knowing how somebody sees the world is only half the story,” the band say. “The last EP is about asking what’s actually true between people.”

Ambitious? Absolutely. But for Boys Go To Jupiter, ambition has always been part of the point.

With Now You’re A Circle, the Brooklyn trio have crafted a project that feels emotionally messy, theatrically vibrant, and refreshingly human — a record that understands that love rarely arrives with easy answers, and maybe never will.