AFTER doing well in America, Leeds band The Dunwells are back home with an imminent EP and an album to follow.

They have been a long time coming. "The last UK release we had was in early 2012, the Follow The Road album, which we then took to America and toured... a lot," says David Dunwell.

"Joe [brother Joseph Dunwell] started writing new material in the summer of 2013 with a plan for release next year, but we decided we couldn't wait to bring some new songs out, so we're doing the new EP now."

Joseph, David and their cousins Robert Clayton and Jonny Lamb will issue the Show Me Emotion EP on Monday, accompanying it with a 13-date September tour that takes in The Wardrobe, in Leeds, tomorrow, Fibbers, in York, on Saturday and Fruit Space, in Hull, on September 20. Pocklington Arts Centre, a favourite Yorkshire stamping ground, awaits on February 5 next year.

David believes the band have achieved the right balance between the United States and home over the past two years.

"We toured heavily, but we're Yorkshire through and through; that's where we live, so we'd spend a lot of time in the US, nine weeks over there, then back home, then another nine weeks in America," he says.

"In between each tour, we'd find that when we next went back to the US there'd be more people coming to the shows, and we could hear our music being played in the coffee shops, so we were definitely making progress over there. We were built to tour and America was calling, but now we're very excited to get the ball rolling here again, because this is where we're from and home was calling too, and that's the reason we've come back."

The Dunwells' first album was recorded in a heatwave at Willie Nelson's studio, an old 1970s country club in Austin, Texas.

"It was ridiculous! Our English skin got fried, but it was exciting, getting the American deal and soaking up all the American influences for the album," recalls David. "But this time we wanted to soak up English influences and work with someone in Yorkshire."

Step forward Kodaline and Kaiser Chiefs producer Steve Harris, whose studio is in Driffield. "As we're from Leeds, we met halfway at a Costa coffee house in York; that was about a year ago," says David.

When will the album be ready?

"It's never completed until it's out, and Joe and I still writing and demoing and getting the best juice out, but we did decide a few months ago that we were more than happy with what we'd recorded and that the record was finished, but having done the EP now, it's definitely not finished until it's out."

Whenever the album arrives, maybe the closing track on Show Me Emotion is an omen. Its title isThe Best Is Yet To Come.

The Dunwells play The Wardrobe, Leeds, tomorrow; Fibbers, York, on Saturday; Fruit Space, Hull, September 20; Pocklington Arts Centre, February 5 2015. Tickets are available from ticketweb.co.uk; except Pocklington, 01759 301547 or pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk