Album Review: NKOS - From Dust to Life (2021)
Picture Credit: NKOS NKOS - From Dust to Life Release Date: May 21, 2021 Label: Beatbuzz Records Format: Cassette / Digital Length: 43:18 Genre: Post Punk / Darkwave / Industrial What was once "a pan-national studio-based project" (cf. NKOS on Bandcamp ) is now a band. Put on your dancing shoes and luminiscent outfits for NKOS. Powered by the harmony of global connection and the internet, the band has now released their first album "From Dust to Life" via Beatbuzzrecords. The eight-track album contains the previously released singles " Little Miss Numb ", " BOW (Brave Old World) ", " Lonely Ghost-Self ", " Can't Wait ", and four new tracks. The soundscapes on "From Dust to Life" are as versatile as life on Earth, and as dark as the dystopian future we are moving towards. And yet, the music is motivating, dynamic, energetic, as if NKOS invited us on an excessive dance - a dance in the dungeons below the ruin...