Koyo on Blue

A weird but fun little one for a gloomy Monday morning. Over the last couple of years, Koyo have been steadily building hype and releasing an incredible trio of EP’s. Their debut EP was released overseas as a 7” via Life and Death Brigade; but picked up by The Coming Strife in the UK as a 10”. There was a bunch of variants for this one (including a sick Taking Back Sunday rip PO cover) but this one is the rarest excluding the test press. 

Koyo - Painting Words Into Lines - The Coming Strife Records - 1st Press - Blue Suede Shoes with Misprint Labels /30

The labels are printed to state the record plays at 33RPM but it plays at 45RPM - so they were released in a limited quarter fold cover exclusive to this mispress. I’m not entirely sure how these were released as I picked it up after the fact from a buddy. 

Here you can see the quarter fold cover and the incorrect labels. Koyo are pretty notorious for weird limited run covers and tour exclusive stuff. The ‘Koyo Fucked Your Bitch’ and Brand New rip cover of Drives Out East are big wants for me - but all good things in time I guess. Anyway, if you like Long Island early 2000’s core then this band are for you. 

NO PRESSURE

 A band that has gained a whole lot of hype in the last couple of years is No Pressure. A 7”, a couple of promo tapes and they landed the release of their debut LP on Triple B Records. For those that don’t know, this is Parker from The Story So Far’s other band. 

This pressing however isn’t the Triple B run, and came out on a Polish label called Ratel records. In 2020, Ratel also put out the debut No Pressure 7”. This pressing is on Green Transparent and is limited to 300. It also plays at 45 RPM and sounds pretty unreal. It turned up just before the Triple B pressing too and is already fetching some predictably over the odds prices on resale. 

The release comes with a double sided insert containing all the lyrics and some fun Live Photos. Discogs states it came with a sticker too but mine doesn’t. 

I didn’t pick this up on its release, and nearly missed the boat entirely just like I did the 7”; but a quick message to the Ratel Instagram and a copy was safely on the way. Also, its been fun to do a post on something a little bigger than a cassette. A couple hours of good weather meant I got some photos that didn’t look like they were taken on a BT Cellnet.