{"product_id":"barely_here","title":"Barely Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarely Here is the second studio album by Koyo, a melodic hardcore and emo-punk band from Stony Brook, New York, released on May 8, 2026 through Pure Noise Records. Formed in 2020 by members of various Long Island hardcore acts including Typecaste and Rain of Salvation, Koyo have built their reputation on channeling the lineage of classic Long Island hardcore — bands like The Movielife, Silent Majority, and early Taking Back Sunday — into something that feels urgent and contemporary rather than purely nostalgic. At ten tracks and just 28 minutes, Barely Here is a deliberately lean and focused record, produced, engineered, and mixed by longtime collaborator Jon Markson, who has also worked with Drug Church, Drain, and The Story So Far. Punk Rock Theory awarded it an 8.0, calling it \"a lean blast of fiery pop-punk packed with emo hooks and hardcore intensity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album features two notable guest appearances: Drain vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro on the confrontational \"Saying Vs. Meaning,\" and Fleshwater's Marisa Shirar on the more emotionally tender \"Oxidize,\" which grapples with watching a loved one's cognitive decline. Lyrically the record moves across restlessness, guilt, displacement, and belonging, with the atmospheric \"Selden Mansions\" — the album's longest track at three and a half minutes — serving as an aching love letter to Long Island itself. The Soundboard called it \"one of the purest, most perfect examples of its style committed to record in a long while,\" praising the album for feeling entirely oblivious to the commodification that softened much of the pop-punk revival, and Punk Rock Theory noted that Barely Here feels like \"a sharpened, more refined version of everything\" that made their 2023 debut Would You Miss It? so compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53593842712890,"sku":"38348","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53593842778426,"sku":"38349","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-11_at_4.49.03_PM.jpeg?v=1781211087","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/barely_here","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}