Photo by Matt Fevrier

The music video for “What I’m Worth” is basked under a filter of sunset skies, features a ton of jump cuts of airplanes taking off, late night drives, and Koyo vocalist Joey Chiaramonte being very unable to chill against the picturesque Hollywood Hills backdrop which the Eric Richter-directed visuals look to have been captured. It’s a far cry from the streets of Long Island where the emotive melodic post-hardcore rockers come from, and maybe there’s something to be read into that.

For a band who has been persistently on the road and has become one of the scene’s bigger success stories in recent year, the story here is is that what looks like a dream life on the outside comes at a cost. “Split 12 ways / Its side ways / While I stay / Bleeding myself dry / On the highways / Total fucking downturn / In headspace / Forget my name, my face / Watch me fade away,” he agonizes in his song, with the five-piece steering their riff-heavy direction down one of its darker roads — a sonic antithesis of that gleaming sun. “I’ve been dying to / I’ve been dying too / Or just press skip / And we won’t talk about it.” You can’t avoid doing that with this one.

Directed by: Eric Richter

Koyo’s Barely There will be released May 8th on Pure Noise Records.