NEW RELEASE
Koyo Release Barely Here
Ten Songs in 28 Minutes
Koyo sharpen their Long Island mix of emo, melodic hardcore, and pop-punk on Barely Here, a ten-song second album released through Pure Noise.
Koyo release Barely Here
Koyo released Barely Here through Pure Noise Records on May 8, 2026. The Long Island band's second album follows Would You Miss It? and condenses ten songs into a 28-minute run.
Koyo Barely Here tracklist
Barely Here includes Straight North, Irreversible, Kingdom, That Stain, Woke Up Older, My Kind, Insult To Injury, Haunted By You, Enemy Of Me, and Barely Here.
The shape of the record
Koyo sit at a useful intersection: emotionally direct enough for an emo bill, urgent enough for a melodic hardcore room, and melodic enough to understand why a chorus matters. Barely Here is specific without being overbuilt. Its compact runtime is part of the point.
Why it belongs in this archive
Midwest emo does not exist in isolation. The modern scene is full of overlapping rooms, shared tours, and listeners whose personal maps do not stop at one subgenre boundary. Koyo's second album is worth filing beside the records that make those boundaries productive rather than rigid.