Robert Robinson started the band sore eros a decade ago in Enfield, Connecticut, as an outlet for his lo-fi Tascam four-track home recordings.

“I never really knew what I was doing, how to write songs, and I barely knew how to sing or play guitar,” says Robinson.

After a while he got the urge to move around a bit, and ended up spending time in Boston, Chicago, New Orleans and Los Angeles, where he met like-minded musicians with whom he shared ideas and songs.

“A lot of those musicians and friends would go on and get signed to big labels,” Robinson says. “Then in 2008, I was living in Louisiana and my father had a heart attack, so I moved back up here to take care of him.”

That sudden move back to New England, motivated by a family emergency, had a silver lining: a new perspective on his musical process. “I began working on some new songs,” says Robinson. “But this time was different, I had a strong desire to actually finish these.”

The return home also reunited Robinson with high school pal Adam Langellotti, whose songs he found on some old cassette tapes in his parents’ basement.

“I hadn’t talked to him in about four years,” Robinson says. “But I found him on the Internet and sent him the songs. Next thing I knew, I was driving up to Boston to collaborate on what would be the first official sore eros release, Second Chants.”

Langellotti soon moved to Northampton, and the Valley became a home base for the band.

“I love the Pioneer Valley,” says Robinson. “I’ve been everywhere around the States and I still think [it’s] one of my favorite places. You can see great live music, get something yummy to eat and then, in just 10 minutes, you’re on top of Mount Skinner enjoying a beautiful view.”

Robinson counts as major influences love songs from the ’50s and ’60s along with the reverb-y sounds of the Catholic Church choirs of his youth. His band uses plenty of that reverb, along with a dash of psychedelics, in creating its well-constructed dream pop.

“Adam plays bass a lot like Paul McCartney, but also throws in a lot of Motown-sounding stuff over layers of psyched-out fuzz stuff we come up with,” says Robinson. “On early recordings, I would sing in bathrooms, and then I found a cheap karaoke machine at a thrift store that had a reverb button on it. It blew my mind. It wasn’t ’til much later in recording that I found they actually had reverb units and reverb pedals.”

Sore eros has just finished recording a second LP, Know Touching, due out this summer on Shdwply Records. On May 7, they play a release party at Cake Shop in NYC for a new seven-inch release.

The group is also already hard at work on its third LP, and is asking for assistance from Valley players this time around.

“We would love to get a collaboration of musicians from the Northampton area to play on it with us,” Robinson says. “We are interested in getting people that play horns and string instruments, so if you do, let us know!””

For songs and shows, or to lend your talents, visit www.myspace.com/soreeros.