The Belgian indie collective momoyo delivers a song that reminds you of your first breath after a sleep-starved night. The songwriters’ third single from their upcoming 2026 album, "Home Is Just a State of Mind", “When the Morning Comes,” is no exception, a quietly devastating meditation on grief, memory, and the heartbreaking beauty of coming of age.
The track unfolds like a whispered conversation between friends who have seen too much too soon. A song about how you grieve for friends who died and the fatality of adolescence, it somehow makes sense that this is Panic at the Disco’s invoking a mid-’90s alt-rock masterpiece. momoyo doesn’t shy away from the inertia of loss, instead, they let it move gently across open guitars, whispered harmonies, and a beat that feels weighty but forgiving.
There’s a quiet restraint here, a sense of knowing that healing isn’t loud or linear. The band Jonas Bruyneel, Esther Coorevits, Frie Mechele, Renaud Debruyne, and Sven Sabbe echoes the personal storytelling that first caught ears on their 2020 debut EP and 2022’s Gaps in Time (Starman Records). After a reflective detour with Mirror Session earlier this year, "When the Morning Comes" feels like a return to light, not blinding, but warm and genuine.
It’s the sound of a band growing into itself, folding personal loss into something quietly universal. When dawn breaks in momoyo’s world, there is no big reveal, just the small reassurance that it always will, and along with it, a way forward.