Koyo have made their big return with the announcement of their sophomore full-length album.
‘Barely Here’ will be released on May 08 via Pure Noise Records. It serves as the follow-up to their 2023 debut ‘Would You Miss It?’.
Vocalist Joey Chiaramonte had this to say about where the record sits for the band, explaining, “A lot of bands think their second album has to be this magnum opus epic that sews so many things together, and I think we’d actually taken more of that approach with our first LP. So with ‘Barely Here’, we wanted to do the opposite of that trajectory–we wanted to refine our strengths instead of doing this purposeful departure. It’s a snapshot of what our band is in its most no-frills, perfected form.“
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. Barely Here
2. Jet Stream Wish
3. Saying Vs Meaning (feat. Sammy Ciaramitaro)
4. It Happens to the Best of Us
5. You Hate Me
6. Selden Mansions
7. Oxidize (feat. Marisa Shirar)
8. What I’m Worth
9. Pace and Loiter
10. Irreversible
They have also shared the first taste of the album, and it’s the closer. An anthemic, fist-flying, insanely catchy piece of post-everything wonderfulness, it’s the sort of shirt-tugging banger that the band are so utterly brilliant at penning.
The band are also in the UK and Europe over the coming weeks, supporting Arm’s Length alongside Ben Quad and Shoreline. Here are all the dates.
FEBRUARY
05 – SOUTHAMPTON Engine Rooms
06 – LONDON Academy Islington
07 – MANCHESTER Club Academy
09 – GLASGOW The Garage
10 – NEWCASTLE The Grove
12 – LIVERPOOL District
13 – LEEDS Project House
14 – BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
15 – KINGSTON Fighting Cocks
18 – ANTWERP Trix Club
19 – EINDHOVEN Dynamo
20 – COLOGNE Gebäude 9
21 – HAMBURG Germany – Logo
