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.
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